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 - Great White
What do turtles use their back flippers for?
How do rays breathe underwater?
What's so special about turtle shells?
Who can set up a marine park?
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
Learn to Draw - Bryde's Whale
Name the Māui dolphins cousin
The incredible Hauraki Gulf
Hope Stories - Revive our Gulf
How can kiwi kids help the green turtle?
Oceans full of plastic
Do dolphins drink water?
How far do black petrels fly?
Learn to Draw - Common Dolphin
Learn to Draw - Short-finned Eel
Pāua, Kina & Rāhui
Learn to Draw - Bronze Whaler
How did fur seals get their name?
Can you hold your breath for 45 secs?
Sharks - super fast swimmers
Dr Ingrid Visser answers our questions about Orca
Learn to Draw - Octopus
What is this creature?
How do you film movies underwater?
How can blind dolphins catch fish?
Tangaroa
How to hide in plain sight
Dolphins special sleep trick
If you were a turtle, would you rather ...
Would you eat a paddle crab?
Where do turtles live?
Why do orca end up stuck on the beach?
Breathing is tricky for a turtle
Wheke
Seabirds and whales!
Where did all the kelp go?
How do you save a bird?
Who are the acrobats of the sea?
Should sharks be protected?
Fur seal Dad jokes
If a ray stops swimming will it ...
Hope Stories - Harakeke rope
Where did all the kelp go?
Crazy plastic journey
What's great about the striped marlin?
National Geographic legends
Watch out for the sting of a ray