Green-Schools are excited to launch the first ever Marine Week. This active learning experience will inspire and educate primary and secondary school students working on the Global Citizenship Marine Environment theme. Each day, new activities will be uploaded to the Marine Week event page for you and your students to access. There will be interactive talks, art, wellbeing activities, educational videos and science experiments on a range of topics such as the importance of our oceans, marine biodiversity, Global Goals and solutions to the marine litter problem. You can take part at home, or in the classroom. 

Missed out on #MarineWeek21 activities? Fear not, we have each day listed below with plenty of videos and activities to share in your classroom:

Monday #MarineWeek21

Welcome Message from Green-Schools

Welcome Message from Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage

We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Marine Creative Writing Competition!

Ocean Wonders: the Shark

Glór na Mara National School speak about the Marine Environment Theme

Marine Week Science Experiments

Tuesday #MarineWeek21

Ocean Wonders: Sea Turtle

Fionn Ferreira

Fionn is a 20 year-old student, scientist, anti-plastic pollution innovator focusing on solving the plastic pollution crisis.

Art Activities
Ocean Crossword

Wednesday #MarineWeek21

Ocean Wonders: Jellyfish

Global Citizenship Presentation

Click to download a presentation on Global Citizenship and SDG 14: Life Below Water
Global Goal 14 Colouring Sheet

Marine Creative Writing Competition Winners

Click here to download a PDF of our Marine Creative Writing Competition Winners

Thursday #MarineWeek21

Ocean Wonders: Sunfish

Marine Litter Activities

Marine Litter Wordsearch
Marine Litter Colouring Sheet

The Wellerman Sea Shanty Sing-Along

The Wellerman Sing Along Printable Chorus Lyrics pdf

Mindfulness and the Sea

Friday #MarineWeek21

Ocean Wonders: Octopus

Ocean Wonders Quiz

Our Ocean Video by Ocean Generation

Check out this great video by our friends at Ocean Generation, you can find out more about their movement and lots more great resources on their website: https://www.oceangeneration.org/

The Story of Disposable Face Masks by Keisha Abdulhaman

Watch this fantastic video by third year student Keisha Abdulhaman, one of our Green-Schools Marine Ambassadors from Sion Hill College in Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Keisha’s video has won the second place prize in the Environmental Protection Agency’s “The Story of your Stuff” competition.

Feedback for #MarineWeek21

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