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!
Learn to Draw - Snapper
What’s a seabird flyway?
Learn to Draw - Common Dolphin
Which fish's poo makes sand?
Learn to Draw - Sperm Whale
S.O.S – Save our sharks!
How Dad saved a dolphin!
Mangōpare - Hammerhead shark
Riley finds where the baby fish live
What's so special about turtle shells?
Favourite marine reserve?
Watch out for the sting of a ray
Is a sharks skin made from teeth?
Meet the humpback whale
What is a habitat?
What do turtles use their back flippers for?
What does Hauraki mean?
Has it been too long?
Where would you like to study the ocean?
What concerns you most about marine pests
Bethany Hamilton answers our questions
How do stingrays swim?
How can fur seals hold their breaths?
Riley meets friendly dolphins
Annoying species
Stingray Dad jokes
How do spiny rock lobsters grow?
Little blue penguin eggs
Riley finds humpback whales!
Riley's dolphin adventure
How many whales?
How do rays breathe underwater?
Crab Dad jokes
Shark Dad jokes
Riley explores a coral reef
Whale expert Nan Hauser answers our questions
What does endemic mean?
Kauri & Tohorā
Sharks - super fast swimmers
Which dolphin has the biggest teeth?
Riley finds where the baby fish live
Who are the acrobats of the sea?
Riley's amazing ray adventure
Dolphin skin - it's amazing!
Learn to Draw - Octopus
Islands in the Hauraki Gulf
Pepeha
How is a ray like a vacuum cleaner?