My Project

I will be heading down to the Bahamas to live on a boat for two weeks and tag some sea turtles! I will be staying with two taggers (i.e. Barbara and Steve) who conduct their research in cooperation with the Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research at the University of Florida. But, helping to tag turtles is not all I will be doing... I have spent the last week researching the Bahamas, sea turtles, and tagging to prepare me for my journey. I also have put together an educational and environmental survey that will be given to a 6th grade class at GDS (Greensboro Day School) and then to a 6th grade Bahamian class. I hope to use the results of this survey to link together knowledge of environmental awareness in different cultures and communities, and also to hopefully link together these two 6th grade classes. Before I give this survey to the GDS 6th graders, I will present them with an informational PowerPoint on what exactly I will be doing down in the Bahamas and also what importance sea turtles hold in our environment as well as in our future.