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!
Sharks - super fast swimmers
What is a habitat?
What has 10 legs and super feelers?
An apex predator is ...
What does endemic mean?
Sea Cleaners! Making a difference
Threats to Māui dolphins
How can fur seals hold their breaths?
How can kiwi kids help the green turtle?
Clarke Gayford answers our questions
Riley explores a coral reef
Can a girl fish become a boy fish?
How to swim with a snorkel
Learn to Draw - Bryde's Whale
How far do black petrels fly?
How do slow down zones work?
Kaitiaki
Watch out for the sting of a ray
What is this creature?
Name this marine pest
Where did all the kelp go?
Dr Ingrid Visser answers our questions about Orca
William Trubridge answers our questions
Meet the humpback whale
Which is the coolest island in the Hauraki Gulf?
Crazy plastic journey
Meet the largest dolphin in the sea
What's great about the striped marlin?
How Dad saved a dolphin!
Whai & Navigation
A swimming crab, WHAT?
Why is plastic so bad for sea creatures?
What is a kelp forest?
Are sharks bones made from noses?
Hope Stories - Harakeke rope
Riley's dolphin adventure
Chicks in the Hauraki Gulf?
What is an apex predator?
Should sharks be protected?
Kaitiakitanga - Community story
Whai
What sea animal eats like a cow?
Biggest island in the gulf?
Riley's amazing ocean journey
Crab Dad jokes
Riley visits a marine reserve!
Kiwi vs. petrel