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!
Do dolphins drink water?
How to hide in plain sight
How can blind dolphins catch fish?
What are zooplankton?
How Dad saved a dolphin!
Where do turtles live?
Do you have the mana of an orca?
Dolphins special sleep trick
Shark Dad jokes
Breathing is tricky for a turtle
Where do creatures poo in the ocean?
Where did all the kelp go?
Sharks - super fast swimmers
Turtle Dad jokes
Seaweed Dad jokes
Crazy plastic journey
What is this creature?
Dolphin Dad jokes
What is a habitat?
Riley helps to save a harbour
Mussels do what to the water?
What has 10 legs and super feelers?
Shark guru Rodney Fox answers our questions
Are sharks bones made from noses?
Why is plastic so bad for sea creatures?
Meet the loggerhead turtle
Meet the striped marlin
Meet the hawksbill turtle
Stop plastic!
Riley's cool turtle encounter
Catch fish not birds
Learn to Draw - Great White
Learn to draw - Crayfish
Learn to Draw - Turtle
Who are the acrobats of the sea?
Why do orca end up stuck on the beach?
Navigation by stars
Learn to Draw - Octopus
Kaitiaki
Can you tell the future?
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke answer our questions
Learn to Draw - Short-finned Eel
Learn to Draw - Triplefin
Riley finds where the baby fish live
Stop marine pests spreading
What is a food chain?