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
What do pipis and cockles do?
Little blue penguin eggs
Learn to Draw - Bryde's Whale
Riley confronts a big fear
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke answer our questions
Riley explores a marine park
Favourite marine reserve?
Māori name for Hauraki Gulf?
What is a habitat?
Kauri & Tohorā
Learn to Draw - Eagle Ray
Riley helps to save a harbour
Which habitat would you rather live in?
Kina - Rangatahi
How much oxygen do sea plants produce?
What's great about the striped marlin?
Meet the humpback whale
Learn to Draw - Snapper
Can you hold your breath for 45 secs?
Where did all the kelp go?
Stingray Dad jokes
An apex predator is ...
Why do orca end up stuck on the beach?
How many whales?
Learn to Draw - Hutton's Shearwater
Dolphin skin - it's amazing!
Learn to Draw - Octopus
Hope story - Brydes whales saved!
Te haerenga wawau o te kirihou
What is an apex predator?
Fur Seals - A Story of Survival
Riley searches for sharks
Whales can’t tell the difference between ...?
Are sharks bones made from noses?
Who can set up a marine park?
How do spiny rock lobsters grow?
How gross are crayfish?
Where do Māui dolphins live?
Catch fish not birds
Can you tell the future?
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
Chicks in the Hauraki Gulf?
Whale expert Nan Hauser answers our questions
Can a girl fish become a boy fish?
Meet the largest dolphin in the sea
Which ocean job suits you best?
Sharks - super fast swimmers
What is a habitat?