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!
Rimurapa
Meet the hawksbill turtle
Looking for a tiny dolphin
What is a kelp forest?
How can blind dolphins catch fish?
Whales can’t tell the difference between ...?
How to swim with a snorkel
Dr Siouxsie Wiles answers our questions
Can a girl fish become a boy fish?
Riley finds humpback whales!
Meet the humpback whale
Turtle Dad jokes
Learn to Draw - Bryde's Whale
Kūtai and Weaving
Riley meets some citizen scientists!
Learn to Draw - Blue Whale
Sea Cleaners! Making a difference
Where do most living things live?
Are sharks bones made from noses?
How Dad saved a dolphin!
Stingray Dad jokes
Do fish eat meatballs?
Kaitiaki
Riley searches for sharks
How to hide in plain sight
Is anything scared of a dolphin?
Where do creatures poo in the ocean?
How deep can fur seals dive?
What do pipis and cockles do?
Riley explores a coral reef
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke answer our questions
Riley's cool turtle encounter
Fur Seals - A Story of Survival
Riley searches for crayfish
Learn to Draw - Snapper
Where did all the kelp go?
Riley searches for sharks
S.O.S – Save our sharks!
Sharks - super fast swimmers
Which fish's poo makes sand?
Which is the easiest piece of rubbish to pick up?
How do you clean a dirty ocean?
If you were a turtle, would you rather ...
Riley's amazing ray adventure