Online Resources

The websites below are primarily for teacher use. Please check websites before giving students access to them.
If a link does not open, try copying the link and pasting it into the address bar of your browser.

Leatherback turtle:

http://www.leatherback.org/index.htm The Leatherback Trust

http://www.seaturtles.org/ Sea Turtle Restoration Project

http://www.savetheleatherback.com From the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, this interesting site offers some ways that people can take action to help the Leatherback Turtle

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID
=403&ArticleID=4564&l=en UN Environment Program article on longline fishing and advice on how to avoid catching turtles

http://www.turtles.org/toc.htm Go to 'About marine Turtles' for Leatherback turtle information and to 'Table of Contents' to find the 'How you can help' page

http://www.panda.org/index.cfm  Search for 'turtles'

http://www.panda.org/downloads/species/brochureturtlecop7indonesiacbd.pdf  World Wildlife Fund brochure on turtles in Indonesia, background, conservation, types of turtles etcetera. (If this link does not work, you may need to copy it and paste it into the address window of your browser.)

http://www.earthwatch.org/ Search for 'Leatherback turtles'

http://greennature.com/article1007.html Illegal wildlife trade in Indonesia (2002) Article in English

Adopt a turtle:

http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/adopt/ Excellent site that allows adoption of turtles that are satellite tracked

http://www.mcsuk.org/turtles/turtles.php?title=adopt%20a%20turtle Marine Conservation Society

Online dictionaries:

http://www.kamus-online.com/?lang=en  

http://www.toggletext.com/  Toggletext can 'translate' web pages as well as passages of text. Of course, like all automatic translation sites it has limitations

Other useful resources:

Penyelamatan binatang: another learning object in this series dealing with another endangered species, the orangutan

http://www1.tpg.com.au/users/wendie/animals1.htm  Lesson plan around investigating animals and creating fact files in Indonesian - the links are often broken, but the basic idea could be of interest

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/nalsas/pdf/assessing.pdf  A research report on assessing and reporting student outcomes in Asian languages (Japanese and Indonesian). Contains the Key Performance Measures tables for Indonesian (If this link does not work, you may need to copy it and paste it into the address window of your browser.)

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/network/ Asia EdNet

http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/aef/ Asia Education Foundation

http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf2/ The Learning Federation

http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/indonesia/ Access Asia, resources for the teaching of Indonesian for teachers and students

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