Mark the Tide
Is the tide coming in or going out? It can be hard to know when you first arrive, so this activity is a good way to find out.
Food Chain Challenge
Look at the person on your left. Now at the person on your right. One of these people will try to eat you. But who? In these activities, you’re going to play the parts of different marine animals, and see who can eat their way to the top of the food chain.
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10mins
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All ages
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Outdoors
Who will you eat?
A food chain is where the different organisms in a habitat eat each other to survive. A krill eats some seaweed, a fish eats the krill, and a shark eats the fish. In this game of rock, paper, scissors you’re going to play the parts of different marine animals, and see who can eat their way to the top of the food chain.
Food Chain Challenge is an Explore activity, all about getting active and investigating critical issues. For a full Ocean School journey, we’d recommend doing a Connect exercise first, to help you feel closer to the sea and get things off to a chilled start. And then once you’ve done the Explore task, finishing with a Protect activity to put everything you’ve learned into action
Accompanying resources
Beach Clean
Get some hands-on experience with ocean pollution. With a good pair of gloves and a keen pair of eyes, you can literally gather data from around the world, right on the beach.
Voice of the Ocean
If the ocean could speak, what would it say? Using everything you’ve learnt, seen, found and felt, you’re going to do something big and brave to make a noise for the ocean. What will you do?…