November 2, 2024
Laura Jim (HPA Marine Studies Leader) and three HPA volunteer students conducted a "Get to Know Sea Turtles" workshop as part of the Big Island Girl Scout STEM ED FAIR. There were six different activities including including sea turtles and each group of Girl Scouts visited sea turtle table. during the 20 minute activity period the scouts learned about tagging and measuring, turtle anatomy and facial recognition of sea turtles. Below are some photos of the HPA students working with the Girl Scouts.
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| Charlotte and Adele conducted the workshop on facial recorgnition and the 7 different species of sea turtles and Madison and Ms. Jim taught about tagging, anatomy and measuring. |
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| The scouts were asked to match facial scale patterns of different turtles to show that you can indeed identify a given turtle by its facial scale pattern. They were also asked to identify the 7 different species of sea turtles by matching a picture of a sea turtle with sea turtle models. |
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| Madison and Ms. Jim taught the scouts about various tagging methods, sea turtle anatomy, how to measure turtles and record data. |
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| Matching turtles based on facial scales. |
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| Charlotte and Adele listen to a question from a scout about facial scale patterns. |
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