Young Ocean Explorers:

Since 2012 we’ve been on a mission to inspire kids to love our ocean, through entertaining education. 

We want to capture children’s imaginations through great storytelling, bringing the beauty, awe and fascination of the ocean and its inhabitants alive. 

Our vision is to create generational change by connecting hearts and minds with the importance of enjoying and caring for our oceans and give them tools to make a better future. 

There’s never been a more vital time for the health of the ocean and this planet than now! 

Enjoy!

- The Young Ocean Explorers

 

2018 Centre of Social Impact Report

Download the report to read about the amazing impact Young Ocean Explorers is having in New Zealand classrooms:

https://www.youngoceanexplorers.com/documents/YOE-evaluation-report-final.pdf

 

21 Day Challenges

The Young Ocean Explorers 21 day challenge is an integrated curriculum teaching resource that links to the New Zealand Curriculum at levels 1–4, but can be adapted for use at various levels.
Participants join thousands of students across Aotearoa as they simultaneously participate in this 21 Day guided inquiry, created by teachers for teachers.

https://www.youngoceanexplorers.com/challenges

 

 

 

Learn to Draw
Interviews with Experts
Hauraki Gulf
YOE adventures
Sea of Hope
SeaLegacy's Sea of Hope episode
Riley can't find the ocean here!
Orca Dad jokes
If a ray stops swimming will it ...
Riley faces a GIANT fear
How to swim with a snorkel
What’s bad about plastic?
Why do we call this a meatball?
How far do little blue penguins swim?
Name the Māui dolphins cousin
Sharks - super fast swimmers
Riley confronts a big fear
What is an apex predator?
Seabirds and whales!
Which is the easiest piece of rubbish to pick up?
Crab Dad jokes
Meet the humpback whale
Pāua
What has 10 legs and super feelers?
Riley confronts a big fear
Speedy boats ...
Where do most living things live?
Learn to Draw - Turtle
Ways to use less plastic
What is a habitat?
Riley finds where the baby fish live
Hope Stories - Harakeke rope
How fast does giant kelp grow?
Does this important job surprise you?
Who can set up a marine park?
Riley's cool turtle encounter
Riley searches for crayfish
Where did all the kelp go?
What do seabirds do?
Which habitat would you rather live in?
How far do black petrels fly?
Learn to Draw - Hutton's Shearwater
Learn to Draw - Eagle Ray
What is a habitat?
Stop marine pests spreading
Should sharks be protected?
What's so special about turtle shells?
Would you eat a paddle crab?
Watch out for the sting of a ray
What is a habitat?
Whose skull am I holding?
How close have you been to a dolphin?
How do you clean a dirty ocean?
Do you have the mana of an orca?
Protection in the ocean