Ocean Pals education
Ocean Pals Learning Resources
Ocean Pals offers resources for young people at different stages of learning. Observation, reading, discussion and artwork can help learners understand marine life and its relationships. Classroom lessons give students time to investigate, discuss their ideas and create artwork.
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Ocean learning across communities
Ocean Pals has connected with schools and students in the Philippines, Anguilla, New York and beyond. Marine education can begin in a classroom, at home or with a community group, giving young people a shared subject to investigate through science and art.
Investigate, discuss and create
Classroom lessons
Choose a lesson to explore a subject through observation, discussion and artwork. Each lesson explains the grades it suits and its teaching approach. These lessons can be used independently of a poster contest.
Sharks in Balance
Investigate sharks’ place in ocean communities, discuss the evidence and turn discovery into artwork. Includes student handouts and educator guidance.
Inspired by the 2027 Ocean Pals poster contest theme.
Explore the lesson
Plastic Pollution – Ocean Solution
Follow a possible journey from litter on land to the sea. Compare ways to interrupt it and show an action through artwork. Includes printable student handouts.
Inspired by the 2020 Ocean Pals poster contest theme.
Follow the journey
Rays in Their World
Compare how rays live and feed, then use sources to shape an explanation in artwork. Includes teaching sequences for four grade divisions.
Inspired by the 2016 Ocean Pals poster contest theme.
Discover the differences