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!
Who are the acrobats of the sea?
Oceans full of plastic
How far do black petrels fly?
An apex predator is ...
Fur Seals - A Story of Survival
Kūtai - Mussels
How do you clean a dirty ocean?
Learn to Draw - Short-finned Eel
What is a kelp forest?
Where do creatures poo in the ocean?
What is an apex predator?
Learn to Draw - Turtle
Turtle rehabilitation
Which dolphin has the biggest teeth?
Love Our Sea song for ECEs
Why call it a carpet shark?
Is this a sea hedgehog?
What food would a turtle serve you at dinner?
Riley faces a GIANT fear
Kelp, help!
Meet the largest dolphin in the sea
Who can set up a marine park?
Wheke
Kauri & Tohorā
Stop marine pests spreading
Growing up is tough in a spiky shell
If you were a turtle, would you rather ...
Learn to Draw - Great White
Crazy plastic journey
Where do whales and dolphins hang out?
Pāua, Kina & Rāhui
Learn to Draw - Blue Whale
My favourite island in the gulf
Riley helps to save a harbour
How do you film movies underwater?
How do stingrays swim?
What does Hauraki mean?
If a ray stops swimming will it ...
What is a food chain?
What's great about the striped marlin?
Are sharks bones made from noses?
Tikanga
Riley finds some massive clams!
Help us save our oceans?
Meet the striped marlin
Māori name for Hauraki Gulf?