World Ocean Day Activities
Each year on June 8, people all over the world celebrate World Ocean Day. Similar to Earth Day and World Environment Day, this day inspires people to learn about and protect our oceans. With so much sea life, tourism, and transportation depending on the world’s oceans, it is important to develop an understanding of how valuable this majestic natural resource truly is.
In schools all over, classroom communities and students study the ocean and learn about some of the challenges it faces. For instance, overfishing and pollution harm the ocean and creatures who live in it. In addition, these practices can make the oceans less welcoming and safe for humans to enjoy.
As you plan your World Ocean Day activities and lesson plan, consider what will inspire your students the most! Do they especially love sea life? Do they live near the ocean or far away? These inquiries can help you execute your best and most meaningful plans for the learners in your classroom.
Our library includes reading comprehension passages about World Ocean Day, as well as many thematically related stories. For instance, perhaps your students will love “A Pirate’s Life for Me” or an excerpt from Peter Pan called “The Mermaids Lagoon.” You can use these resources as individual lessons or to preview and review content. Our newest materials allow students to learn all about the history of World Ocean Day and interesting sea creatures of different shapes and sizes. These nonfiction passages will direct students to respond to questions and do a careful and close reading.
In addition, our World Ocean Day presentations about beach clean-ups and coral will help students understand how they can best take care of the ocean. These World Ocean Day presentations also include coordinating activities. First, students can learn and then they can create! Use these World Ocean Day printable resources to integrate this celebration into your learning space this June or any month of the year!
ReadingVine’s World Ocean Day activities and lesson plan ideas aid literacy skills and are aligned to both NGLS and CCSS standards. They offer a point of engagement and maintain adherence to rigorous learning standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening. Take the dive into our collection of World Ocean Day lessons today!
World Ocean Day Printable Activities (PDFs)
Read all about the history of World Ocean Day and respond to text-based reading questions and inference questions. This one-page reading about the creation of World Ocean Day is a great way to introduce younger learners to the importance of this annual celebration.
Use this reading comprehension passage to learn all about the octopus, blobfish, and jellyfish. Then use our text-based reading questions to confirm what your students know, encourage them to reflect, and use their compare and contrast skills.
Whether you’re studying coral in a biology unit or simply learning the colors of the rainbow, our presentation and coordinating activities provide lots of opportunity to grow! Our coral presentation and coral activities for elementary school learners are a great way to complement your World Ocean Day lesson plans and offer student choice, extend learning, or support students through purposefully designed take-home tasks.
Our coral activities dive into the colorful and exciting world of coral this World Ocean Day. Encourage your learners to express themselves through color and short writing tasks that support their literacy development and confidence in the classroom.
Use this presentation to help your students visualize what a beach clean-up is and understand its many purposes. Then, use the coordinating activities to get students to invite others to a beach clean-up or use our look and find worksheet to prepare learners to determine which items need to be cleaned up.
World Ocean Day is a great time to inspire activism within classrooms. These activities are an excellent way to get students to think about how they can become responsible and caring citizens. Click here to begin!