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!
Which is the easiest piece of rubbish to pick up?
Riley's amazing ray adventure
Tāne
Learn to Draw - Great White
What is a hawksbill turtle’s fav food?
How do spiny rock lobsters grow?
How many species of turtles?
How 2 Hongi
What sea animal eats like a cow?
What is a habitat?
Mussels do what to the water?
Seaweed Dad jokes
How can fur seals hold their breaths?
Sharks - super fast swimmers
Riley searches for crayfish
Riley meets some citizen scientists!
Learn to Draw - Short-finned Eel
How can kiwi kids help the green turtle?
Watch out for the sting of a ray
Is a sharks skin made from teeth?
Kaitiakitanga - Community story
What does endemic mean?
Learn to Draw - Common Dolphin
Kiwi vs. petrel
Hope Stories - Experiencing Marine Reserves
Whales can’t tell the difference between ...?
Can a girl fish become a boy fish?
The incredible Hauraki Gulf
Riley finds where the baby fish live
Stop marine pests spreading
What do turtles use their back flippers for?
Which fish's poo makes sand?
How far do black petrels fly?
Why make friends with a killer whale?
How do you film movies underwater?
Love Our Sea song for ECEs
Mangōpare - Hammerhead shark
Learn to Draw - Sperm Whale
Bethany Hamilton answers our questions
Meet the striped marlin
Learn to Draw - Turtle
What is a food chain?
Turtle rehabilitation
Why do orca end up stuck on the beach?
Crayfish Dad jokes
Where do whales and dolphins hang out?