YOE - About

About

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

5093

Riley can't find the ocean here!

1039

3998

Top tips on saving our oceans

247

11014

William Trubridge answers our questions

1802

How do rays breathe underwater?

447

25432

Learn to Draw - Short-finned Eel

3111

4116

Fur Seals - A Story of Survival

255

8723

Sharks - super fast swimmers

399

32983

Navigation by stars

989

What is an apex predator?

4039

94165

Pāua, Kina & Rāhui

6588

9205

What eats turtles?

1583

47498

Which habitat would you rather live in?

372

16934

Riley's amazing ocean journey

1122

5291

Name a NZ marine pest

7890

What is a marine pest?

11569

S.O.S – Save our sharks!

121

5498

What sea animal eats like a cow?

408

21481

Name the Māui dolphins cousin

127

10637

Who can set up a marine park?

1682

24236

The incredible Hauraki Gulf

10851

54845

How can fur seals hold their breaths?

4269

Whakataukī - Māori Proverbs

5365

A swimming crab, WHAT?

340

12802

Are shipwrecks good or bad?

1950

14939

What’s a seabird flyway?

2757

Why shouldn’t we buy tortoiseshell?

3887

What concerns you most about marine pests

280

5523

Hope story - Brydes whales saved!

295

11339

Oceans full of plastic

8447

How does a ray eat it’s food?

3846

Tricks to hold your breath longer

190

7000

Meet the striped marlin

299

7824

Where do whales and dolphins hang out?

262

21368

Which fish's poo makes sand?

1948

24069

What is a habitat?

239

11804

Fantastic Wheke facts!

9674

Where would you like to study the ocean?

3476

What are zooplankton?

1679

40427

Which fish's poo makes sand?

1948

24050

Where did all the kelp go?

348

24499

Chicks in the Hauraki Gulf?

122

4809

Eudyptula, what?

4030

Would you slow down for whales?

3188

Where did all the kelp go?

348

24488

Mangōpare - Hammerhead shark

4919

Dolphin skin - it's amazing!

121

10642

Which camouflage skill would you like?

3715

What’s a marine current?

1774

Which ray is the best swimmer?

2969

More ...

Young Ocean Explorers:

2018 Centre of Social Impact Report

21 Day Challenges

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