Watch a video about the treatment of an injured hawksbill turtle.
Read a news article about the hawksbill turtle
Make a turtle shell out of things you find around your home/classroom. If you can, find some string or elastic to attach it to your back.
A dolphin’s pointy mouth is usually called a 'snout' but can also be called a beak. A beak is also the name for a bird's projecting jaws.
Extinction of an animal or plant happens when there are no more of them alive anywhere in the world.
A small sea turtle that lives in tropical (warm) waters. It has a hooked jaw (like a hawk) and overlapping plates on it's shell.
A sponge, or kōpūpūtai in Māori, is a simple animal with many cells, but no mouth, muscles, heart or brain. It grows in one spot like most plants do, and can’t move from place to place like most other animals. It draws in water to feed and breathe, and feeds mostly on bacteria and other tiny creatures.
Something tropical lives in the tropics – the middle part of the earth either side of the equator.
