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Visit your local aquarium and pay special attention to their rehabilitation and conservation efforts.

Use materials you already have on hand to make ocean themed art projects.

Or next time you go to the ocean, bring back a few of those items (if permitted by the beach / local rules) for a beach themed scavenger hunt at home. Hunt for seashells, shark teeth fossils, coral, feathers, driftwood, sea glass, or anything else normally found at the beach.

Help kids with an ocean-themed scavenger hunt.

So picking up litter around a stream or pond helps protect the earth’s water.

All bodies of water eventually lead to the ocean.

Clean up around your closest water source.

Whether it’s a large group or just a few friends, get together and pick up the single use plastic from the beach and dispose of it properly.

Organize a beach clean up in your community.

Read Oceanarium all at once or divide the galleries up over a few weeks.

Host a book club with your child’s friends.

Whether you get the chance to be near the ocean this summer or not, there are plenty of ways to celebrate World Ocean Day / Month with kids. It’s really a wonderful addition to your collection or library check-out, especially during World Ocean Month. The book explains, “The ocean is resilient and can recover if given time.” The section on Humans and the Ocean informs about our impact on the planet’s water systems, but it doesn’t overwhelm. You can use this comprehensive book to start a variety of conservation talks and efforts with your kids. A few years ago we took a conservation tour at the Mote Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida and the guide explained and showed several examples of how much more wildlife was found in the mangroves than in the areas where humans had built seawalls. The mangrove forest was especially interesting to us. While each gallery offers a diverse selection of the life forms you’ll find there, most sections of the book also include details on the habitat. And parrotfish are all born female, with some transforming into males later in life.

Purple sea urchins pose a threat to kelp forests, devouring 90 percent of the bull kelp forests in California. Some cetaceans – particularly humpback whales – are known to complete a 10,000 mile round trip journey between the equator and Antarctica. They also learned plenty of new and surprising facts.

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While the boys have never seen a shark book they didn’t devour, Oceanarium certainly holds their full attention. The photos of squid and octopi are mesmerizing.

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One Ocean – all about the habitat plus humans and the oceanĬollectively our kids loved the section on cephalopods and sharks the most.Our team includes a few homeschool families, and we agreed Oceanarium’s nine “galleries” could easily serve as nine weeks of science curriculum. “From the majestic to the peculiar the fearsome to the vulnerable, this awe-inspiring world is laid before you to explore.” It starts with an entrance or overview of the ocean and its zones. Oceanarium invites you and your child to tour the aquarium and discover the secrets of the sea for yourselves. The Nine Galleries Featured in Oceanarium Open 365 days a year and unrestricted by the constraints of physical space, each book contains “galleries” of more than 200 full-color specimens accompanied by exciting facts and descriptions. These books are set on the “walls” of the printed page.

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Candlewick’s Welcome to the Museum series is the next best thing to visiting the most interesting art, history, and science museums in the world.