{"id":8895,"date":"2019-04-29T11:25:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=8895"},"modified":"2019-04-15T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:45:12","slug":"classroom-calendar-world-turtle-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/classroom-calendar-world-turtle-day","title":{"rendered":"Our May classroom calendar: World Turtle Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explorica is very proud of our new resource for teachers: our 2018-19 Around the World classroom calendar!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The calendar features a new country and an international holiday or event for you to celebrate with your students each month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/May-2019.pdf\">Download<\/a> a new page each month on this blog (and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/4A322D444EFA67DF\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">subscribe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!), hang it up in your classroom, and talk to your students about how the holiday reflects the country\u2019s history and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This May, we\u2019re featuring World Turtle Day. Established in 2000, World Turtle Day, May 23rd, encourages citizens to support the conservation of all species of turtles and tortoises. The Gal<span class=\"s1\">\u00e1<\/span>pagos Tortoise, from which the islands get their name, is the largest living species of tortoise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Use this opportunity to teach your students about the many endemic species of the Gal<span class=\"s1\">\u00e1<\/span>pagos\u00a0Islands, and why the conservation of vulnerable species there, and all around the world, is so important.<\/p>\n<p><b>Questions to ask your students:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What other animals can be found in the Gal<span class=\"s1\">\u00e1<\/span>pagos?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you know what endemism means?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What do you think biological researchers do in places like the\u00a0Gal<span class=\"s1\">\u00e1<\/span>pagos?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interested in taking your students to the islands made famous by Charles Darwin? Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/educational-tours\/galapagos-island-adventure.aspx\">Gal<span class=\"s1\">\u00e1<\/span>pagos Island Adventure<\/a> itinerary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explorica is very proud of our new resource for teachers: our 2018-19 Around the World classroom calendar! The calendar features a new country and an international holiday or event for you to celebrate with your students each month. Download a new page each month on this blog (and subscribe!), hang it up in your classroom, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/classroom-calendar-world-turtle-day\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-explorica-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8900,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions\/8900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}