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!
Māori games - Community story
Can a girl fish become a boy fish?
Which fish's poo makes sand?
How do you film movies underwater?
Kina - Rangatahi
What is a gulf?
Riley faces a GIANT fear
Seabirds and whales!
Meet the largest dolphin in the sea
Stingray Dad jokes
A swimming crab, WHAT?
How do you clean a dirty ocean?
Fantastic Wheke facts!
What does a dolphins sonar tell them?
Speedy boats ...
Who are the acrobats of the sea?
Looking for a tiny dolphin
Riley's amazing ocean journey
Mussels do what to the water?
Orca Dad jokes
Why do this fish's stripes glow?
Kiwi vs. petrel
If a ray stops swimming will it ...
Is anything scared of a dolphin?
Riley searches for sharks
How do slow down zones work?
Dr Ingrid Visser answers our questions about Orca
Hope Stories - Sea Cleaners
Meet the humpback whale
What is a kelp forest?
How deep can fur seals dive?
William Trubridge answers our questions
How can fur seals hold their breaths?
How do spiny rock lobsters grow?
Which habitat would you rather live in?
What has 10 legs and super feelers?
Where would you like to study the ocean?
Birds with magic tricks
How to hide in plain sight
Where did all the kelp go?
Learn to Draw - Hutton's Shearwater
How can blind dolphins catch fish?
What do turtles use their back flippers for?
How many eggs does this huge fish lay?
Sharks - super fast swimmers
Catch fish not birds
What is orca chocolate?