To help you mark World Oceans Day on Wednesday 8 June and promote the need to honour, protect and maintain a healthy ocean with your Geography students, we've hand-picked a selection of engaging ocean-themed resources, to raise awareness of the environmental threats to our oceans and highlight the significance to mankind of having a healthy ocean.
World Oceans Day
Celebrate World Oceans Day and educate students about ocean conservation with this selection of KS3 and KS4 geography resources
Oceans
Let's learn about **Oceans**! This worksheet includes 21 pages with a wide variety of activities and exercises about the oceans. The materials have informative exercises about the things that are related to the oceans, such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, tides, the rising sea level, tsunamis,...
The importance of Oceans
This lesson is aimed at KS3 students, it is the first in a series of 8 lessons on oceans.
Perfect Planet - Oceans
A 20 question worksheet and follow on activity sheet to support A Perfect Planet - The Ocean (BBC Documentary). The programme looks at the key forces around oceans of currents, winds and waves. Without the constant mixing of currents, tides and waves, our oceans would stop supporting life - and a h...
Continents and Oceans Task Cards
These task cards are a great way for students to practice their skills with identifying the continents and oceans. In this activity students are to identify each of the seven continents and five oceans as shown within a map of the world. Other questions are included such as: what continent is t...
Introduction to Oceans
This lesson is designed to last for 50-60 minutes and is resourced with videos, extension questioning, deep thinking and uses graphs/images to aid learning. This lesson follows the Oxford KS3 curriculum and looks at where the 5 different oceans are located. Students will also be given images and wi...
Ask the Expert Interview on The Governance of the Ocean
Ask the Expert Interview on The Governance of the Ocean
What is the question?: Plastic Pollution in the Oceans
This resource focuses on asking the BIG geographical questions surrounding the issue of plastic pollution in the oceans, and is ideal for KS3/KS4. It can be used as a starter or plenary activity, as extension or group work, to spark discussions and debates, as homework or some end-of-term fun! It ma...