World Oceans Day 2017

Celebrate World Oceans Day 2017

World Oceans Day 2017 is right around the corner, coming up on June 8th. This is a wonderful opportunity for you and your students to explore and learn more about the oceans and the creatures that inhabit them. The theme of this year's World Oceans Day is  "OUR OCEANS, OUR FUTURE", with the main conservation focus on plastic pollution prevention and cleaning the ocean of marine litter.  Exploring By the Seat of Your Pants has lined up some excellent Google Hangouts with marine biologists, explorers and institutions around the world. The hangouts will take place on June 8th-between 8 am and 4 pm EST, lasting 20-30 minutes each. There are more being added all the time and if you act quickly, you may snag a camera spot. Remember these are streamed live on YouTube, so you and your class can simply watch them live or check back later for the recordings, if the times don't work for you. Snag one with the Google Form or an email: ebtsoyp@gmail.com    

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Check out the wonderful resources on World Ocean Day 2017 from the Octonauts. www.worldoceansday.org/octonauts and so much more... plastic pollution, media, etc. ​http://www.worldoceansday.org/resources

Spongelabs has put together a nice selection of resources for World Oceans Day. You can access the lesson with all the media resources here.  Click on the lesson and the media listings will be on the left side.

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The United Nations is also celebrating World Oceans Day by connecting it to the celebration of the Ocean Conference to be held from 5 to 9 June in United Nations headquarters in New York.  You can check out even more resources here.

EdTech Team has a great pdf with 8 ways to celebrate World Oceans Day. You can read more about it on their blog here,  and download the pdf here.  One of the very cool exhibits to visit is the Ozeaneum. This is a display on the Google Cultural Institute site.  Ozeaneum shows off the exhibit of rare original animals and plants. 

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and even more ...

Follow the hashtag #worldoceansday  to find many other great resources.