"Reptiles Are Cool" Assembly
Wednesday, March 21st. 2007

This assembly was an  eye-opening look at the world of reptiles through an informative program that featured snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises, and alligators.  Students  learned fascinating facts as they got a close-up look at reptiles creeping, leaping, crawling, and climbing.

Students  even got to  touch some reptiles such as the Burmese python, boa constrictor, turtles and tortoises.  But the Solomon Island Skink and other sharp toothed reptiles are better left untouched.    Here are some of the details that students learned during the assembly:

	Lizards, with their sleek bodies and long tails, vary in size from the 3-inch worm lizard to the 12-foot Komodo Monitor Lizard.  A lizard's tongue not only helps catch prey, but sometimes serves as a nose to smell.
	Turtles and tortoises have shells that can cover their entire body.  This protects them from stronger, faster, animals.  Turtles range in size from a few inches to as tall as a full-grown man.  Some weigh over 1,000 pounds.  Instead of teeth, these reptiles have jaws with razor-sharp edges.
	Fresh water turtles, with their webbed feet, spend most of their lives in water.  Sea turtles have broad flippers to help them navigate the sea.  Tortoises, which have toes, live mostly on land.
	Snakes are known to slither, crawl, swim or climb.  Snakes can be as small as a 10-inch vine snake or as long as a 30-foot Anaconda snake.

This program was structured and conducted with two objectives in mind.  First, to entertain and hold the interests of our students.  Second, to provide the students with a basic informational introduction to reptiles.

Students were encouraged to ask questions during the program and also, but not required to, touch the live animals and to discover for themselves why, "Reptiles are Cool."

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