Marine Science Videos for Kids
A collection of online videos, from all over the internet, might be of interest. These aren’t my own videos. However, I’ve listed them in the order of the sections of Workbook 1, in case you’d like to watch them around the same time.
General
Starting with some light entertainment, BBC’s The Deep
Unit 1 Oceanography
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One Big Ocean
Learn Bright’s Oceans of the World
Ocean Features
The scientist who mapped the sea
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Ocean Exploration
Ocean explorer - best job ever
Unit 2 Marine Biology
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Ocean Plants
As a marine biologist, I’d avoid most of the information for kids, online, regarding ocean plants – this is because it’s either incorrect or simplified to a level of being incorrect. To put it simply but still correctly, there’s true-plants (the seagrass) and plant-like organisms (seaweeds and phytoplankton) with multiple seaweed groups (red, brown and green). It’s easy to pass on common misconceptions when teaching specialised subjects. It’s just very challenging to teach. I would recommend grabbing some ID cards, if you can go to a museum, aquarium or local beach then great, and doing some basic ID activities like treasure hunts.
Ocean Animals
Exploring the Ocean play list by Free School
I love Sam, from Nat Geo Kids, video's. There are quite a few playlists at Nat Geo Kids, including their
and What Sam Sees
Lifecycles by Ocean Life Education – one of several videos for primary school-aged kids, focusing on curriculum topics, which are available on their channel
Ocean Ecosystems
Biomes and Ecosystems by Learn Bright
Ocean Habitats by Ocean Life Education
A food chain compilation video by Crash Course Kids
Helps explain the layers of the oceans
This video has a bit more detail about reefs than the workbook, may be better for slightly older kids
More of Sam from Nat Geo Kids videos – here she checks out a coral reef at night. I'd also recommend checking out the playlists above in the Ocean Animals section, they could be worth watching – especially for inspiration for colouring and drawing underwater habitats or starting a new project.
Unit 3 People and the Ocean
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The Earth is our Home
Visiting the beach by Tom Booth, read allowed by ABC Read to me
Ocean Conservation
A Little cheesy, but a fun way to introduce litter and the oceans, is this ‘Save the Ocean’ animated video by Bethany Stahl
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Ocean History
Oldie but Goldie – Seaside Holiday, finding out what it was like to visit the seaside 100 years ago. A few seconds of sound quality issues at the beginning but seems ok for the rest of the video. There are a few episodes of these around (and if you look closely you might recognize one of the actors!).
Captain James Cook by ABC Australia, there’s a playlist with some more BTN videos on the topic here.
Unit 4: Prehistoric Oceans
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Learn Bright Fossils for Kids
I can’t believe how dated this looks now – I thought it was so good at the time!!! But it still gets the point across. Part of a wider playlist on walking with dinosaurs on the BBC Kids YouTube channel.
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