>>Some people don't know they don't know and don't want to find out. Here is an idea though. Collect some photos of neglected, sick, and malnurished turtles. That way you can show them what happens when people don't get the prper information. I'm sure that there are a lot of rescue groups and vets that would submit photos for the educational program that you run.

That's a great idea, we've never done it before but I'm already ahead of you.
I'm not sure why I suppose because Kid's College isn't real college or school, the college doesn't give us the best equipment in the classrooms for this program.
The VCR/DVD player I requested didn't show up,instead I got an ancient VCR to use that seems to be on it's last legs.

However for session two that begins this Monday what you said here is exactly what we're going to do. My teaching partner just got a lap top computer, I don't have one.
I did an hour speech with slide show on turtle/tortoise nutrition on April 22, 2006 for a continuing education seminar for RVTs that the college sponsored.
Because of that I already have a whole CD full of closed eyes/sick/deformed turtle & tortoise pictures so my partner & I are going to use her new computer to show the next group of kids what they look like when they're fed crap for dinner all the time.
I have surgery videos too but I think they're just a little too graphic for 1st-6th graders. The vidoes I do take with me are programs I've recorded myself from Discovery & Animal Planet, or checked out from the county library...but I think these photos I have will make a huge impression.
We're going to try this for sure. In fact, I'll let ya all know how it goes.
This was very impressive to people at the RVT CE program in April, that's because the majority who were there deal with dogs, cats, horses 98 percent of the time so turtle/tortoise info was all new to them.
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