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!
Seabirds and whales!
Riley's dolphin adventure
How to swim with a snorkel
Meet the largest dolphin in the sea
Why get caught on a fishing line?
Whai
Crazy plastic journey
How can fur seals hold their breaths?
Protection in the ocean
Sharks - super fast swimmers
How can kiwi kids help the green turtle?
Kaitiakitanga - Community story
Why call it a carpet shark?
Riley helps to save a harbour
Riley rescues a turtle!
Why is plastic so bad for sea creatures?
Looking for a tiny dolphin
Top tips on saving our oceans
A swimming crab, WHAT?
Whakamutua te whakamahi kirihou
Shark Dad jokes
What is a food chain?
Dolphin skin - it's amazing!
Riley explores a marine park
Are shipwrecks good or bad?
Which fish's poo makes sand?
Whakataukī - Māori Proverbs
What is a hawksbill turtle’s fav food?
What is an apex predator?
Fur Seals - A Story of Survival
How do you film movies underwater?
What is this creature?
Are sharks bones made from noses?
Which is the easiest piece of rubbish to pick up?
Why do we call this a meatball?
Stingray Dad jokes
Pāua
Learn to Draw - Bryde's Whale
Mangōpare - Hammerhead shark
Is that an underwater robot?
What’s a marine current?
Where did all the kelp go?
Whales can’t tell the difference between ...?
Kina - Rangatahi
Threats to Māui dolphins
What food would a turtle serve you at dinner?
Orca Dad jokes