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 - Octopus
Sharks - super fast swimmers
Meet the humpback whale
Biggest island in the gulf?
Māori games - Community story
Name this marine pest
Why do orca end up stuck on the beach?
How many whales?
How many eggs does this huge fish lay?
Kauri & Tohorā
Which fish's poo makes sand?
What is a habitat?
Goat Island
Ways to use less plastic
Crayfish Dad jokes
The incredible Hauraki Gulf
What sea animal eats like a cow?
Can a girl fish become a boy fish?
How to hide in plain sight
Is anything scared of a dolphin?
Protection in the ocean
Do you have the mana of an orca?
Learn to Draw - Orca
Learn to Draw - Snapper
What's so special about turtle shells?
What is a food chain?
Learn to Draw - Common Dolphin
Learn to Draw - Short-finned Eel
Whakataukī - Māori Proverbs
Which habitat would you rather live in?
How deep can fur seals dive?
What is a gulf?
Riley talks to a world record holder!
What’s bad about plastic?
Learn to Draw - Māui Dolphin
Why do we call this a meatball?
What does Hauraki mean?
What are zooplankton?
Where do whales and dolphins hang out?
Spot the dolphin difference
How do marine pests get to NZ
Where do creatures poo in the ocean?
What is this creature?
If you were a turtle, would you rather ...
Love Our Sea song for ECEs
Which is the easiest piece of rubbish to pick up?