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
Riley can't find the ocean here!
Sea of Hope
SeaLegacy's Sea of Hope episode
Learn to Draw - Common Dolphin
How many Māui dolphins?
Which is the easiest piece of rubbish to pick up?
Why shouldn’t we buy tortoiseshell?
What is a hawksbill turtle’s fav food?
Oceans full of plastic
Can you find the triplefin all over NZ?
What is a food chain?
Learn to Draw - Bryde's Whale
Would you eat a paddle crab?
Rāhui - protection
Learn to draw - Crayfish
Name a NZ marine pest
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke answer our questions
What is an apex predator?
What does endemic mean?
Name this marine pest
What does a dolphins sonar tell them?
How can blind dolphins catch fish?
Riley explores a coral reef
Is a sharks skin made from teeth?
Chicks in the Hauraki Gulf?
Seaweed Dad jokes
Help us save our oceans?
If you were a turtle, would you rather ...
How do stingrays swim?
Name the smallest penguin?
Would you slow down for whales?
Most amazing petrel fact?
Why is plastic so bad for sea creatures?
How is a ray like a vacuum cleaner?
Sharks - super fast swimmers
Is anything scared of a dolphin?
Dr Ingrid Visser answers our questions about Orca
What has 10 legs and super feelers?
Fish Dad jokes #2
Kauri & Tohorā
Pāua
What is a slow down zone?
Ways to use less plastic
Fantastic Wheke facts!
How do you clean a dirty ocean?
Should sharks be protected?
Meet the humpback whale
Dolphin skin - it's amazing!
My favourite island in the gulf
Should we care about sea birds?
Dolphin Dad jokes