Join kids and teachers around the world for a fun, interactive day of learning about our blue planet. Now in its seventh year, World Ocean Day for schools connects kids to the blue spaces around them and inspires them to become ocean advocates (or as we call them, Good Blue Humans!).
World Ocean Day for Schools provides educators with the inspiration, resources & activities to engage their students in more meaningful conversations about the ocean. Since its launch in 2018 World Ocean Day for Schools has focused on increasing ocean literacy in schools. We’ve evolved from a small-scale event with 400 schools to an interactive online festival with over 100k users. We’re proud to be a UN Ocean Decade endorsed activity.
Benefits for students and teachers
Fun, interactive learning
Kick off with an amazing assembly, the choose-your-own-adventure for the rest of the day with lessons and creative activities that transport kids from the classroom to all corners of our blue planet.
Resources for educators
Design your day of learning with a morning assembly, teacher toolkits, and a range of interactive lesson modules to choose from.
Year-round impact
The Our Blue program can be accessed all year round – enabling schools to engage whenever suits them and continue on their learning journey.
our theme for 2024
We’re exploring what it means to be a Good Blue Human – focusing on three main themes – Being, doing & connecting.
Our Blue Global Experiment
In 2022 we launched Our Blue – a digital platform that enables schools to map their local blue space. We want kids to know they can be ocean advocates no matter where they live. We created activities that helped build a closer connection to their blue space, whether it was a beach, river, canal, stream or lake.
This year we’re collaborating with Dr Pamela Buchan, Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, to run a global experiment to capture data around marine identity, marine citizenship & connection to the ocean.
“World Ocean Day for Schools is a fantastic opportunity not only to explore the relationships people have with the sea, but also to understand how these relationships are formed in childhood. This is the first time that marine citizenship and what motivates it will be investigated in young people on a global scale. The data collected through this project will help researchers to better understand how marine citizenship can be promoted in all people.” – Dr Pamela Buchan, Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Here’s how you can join us 👇🏼
- Add your local blue space to the map
- Sign the manifesto
- Join the experiment – Choose which activities you’d like to do.
- As you finish an activity, upload your data to the hub
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