Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: The Oceans
This online exhibit from the Natural History Museum is home to ten units covering various aspects of the world's oceans including frozen oceans, deep oceans, barnacles, coral reef, deep-sea fish, sponges, vents, and more.
Other
Save Our Seas Organization: Home Page
Home page of the Save Our Seas Organization which seeks to protect all the oceans of the world.
PBS
Pbs: Journey to Planet Earth: Seas of Grass
A part of the PBS series "Journey to Planet Earth," this section explores the world's grasslands, some of which are in environmental danger. Includes video and educational resources.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: World Atlas: The World
Provides continent, country, and ocean floor maps from all over the world. Click on a continent's name to access the detailed maps which also include statistical facts on each available country.
Lizard Point Quizzes
Lizard Point: World Oceans and Continents Quiz
Test your geography knowledge by taking this interactive quiz over the world's continents and oceans.
Museum of Science
The Museum of Science: Oceans Alive: Ocean Profiles
An interactive map of the world's oceans allows you to access profiles for each of the four oceans.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Sylvia Earle's Ted Prize Wish to Protect Our Oceans
What's been happening to the world's oceans over the past 50 years? Ocean researcher, Sylvia Earle, shares breathtaking images of the ocean and surprising details about the many problems plaguing its health. [18:12]
Other
Noaa: Large Marine Ecosystems of the World
A detailed look at large marine ecosystems throughout the world. See animated maps showing the growth of chlorophyll in oceans, seas, and river systems.
National Geographic
National Geographic: My Wonderful World: World Wall Maps (Pdf)
Make your own full color or black and white mosaic wall map on your own printer. World maps, continents, Asian regions, and oceans are available for downloading, printing, and assembling.
Other
Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War
Entire online text of an original book written by the chief German Admiral in World War One.
Texas A&M University
Ocean World: Bringing the Ocean to the Classroom
Online resource for students and teachers to see information on icebergs, fisheries, coral reefs, waves, currents and more. Provides teachers with learning activities. Has its own ask-an-expert site (Ask Dr. Bob), and provides real-time...
NOAA
Noaa: Ocean and Coasts
This website highlights the oceans of the world. Even though June is World Ocean Month, learning about oceans never ends! There are links here to many resources and lesson plans regarding the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "World Without Fish" by Mark Kurlansky
Selected (8) reading passages (grades 6-10) to pair with "World Without Fish" by Mark Kurlansky. Mark Kurlansky discusses how humans treat the oceans and the fish that live in them, and what the world will likely look like if fish...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Four World Zones
Learn about four groups of humans developed from non-connected geographic zones due rising seas. Human history can be explained by this division.
World Geography Games
World Geography Games: Oceans
Identify the world's oceans through this interactive quiz.
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects: Geography Games: Oceans and Seas
Study a labeled world map showing the oceans and seas, and then try to match their names to their locations on a blank map.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Oceans
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fun 5 page flipchart is a great introduction to oceans for primary grades. It contains links to web sites about oceans, a cute star fish song, and water poem. It also displays the 4 oceans on a...
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World and Busch Gardens Animal Bytes: Seahorse
Discover how many kinds of seahorses exist, how they are born, and how they survive in the world's oceans and seas.
SMART Technologies
Smart: World Map
This lesson features a world map with labeled countries, a global map, and an interactive map of the seven continents.
World Geography Games
World Geography Games: Seas
Identify the world's major seas through this interactive quiz.
Wonderville Media
Wonderville: Ocean Habitats
Habitats are places where plants and animals live. There are many different habitats in the oceans of the world. Every plant and animal in the ocean prefers a particular habitat. Learn about Ocean Habitats in this well-constructed...
The Wild Classroom
The Wild Classroom: Biomes of the World: Oceanic Pelagic Biome
Learn about the oceanic pelagic ecosystem. Find out about plants, animals, adaptations, and conservation efforts.
University of California
Ucmp: The World's Biomes
This is an introduction to the major biomes on Earth. This page groups biomes into five major types: aquatic, deserts, forests, grasslands, and tundra. Information on climate, animal/plant life, and much more is given for each of type...
The Franklin Institute
In Quiry Almanack: Undersea and Oversee
Dive into a greater understanding of the oceans by tagging along on this exploration of the oceans.