The SHORE Ocean Literacy Tools

Supporting educators provide a contextual understanding of the influence Earth’s water bodies have on humans, and vice versa, for their students in compulsory education.

The SHORE Ocean Literacy Tools

Supporting educators provide a contextual understanding of the influence Earth’s water bodies have on humans, and vice versa, for their students in compulsory education

An interdisciplinary approach to open schooling methodologies that increases water literacy in formal and non-formal learning environments

Resources for teachers

Support mechanisms that provide mentoring, guidance, resources and recommendations to actors involved in promoting ocean literacy

Each of the seven SHORE country hubs have devised specialised resources for teacher in their national language that consists of webinars, “meet & greet” and special events such as hackathons and summer institutes.

  • Community of practice
Network with other teachers implementing the SHORE resources in their classrooms

The SHORE Community of Practice will be a virtual space where teachers can access a repository of material relevant to the topics of water literacy around oceans, sea, rivers, and lakes.

  • Participate in SHORE’s actions
Twinning, Network of European Blue Schools, Blue School Projects Funding

We make it easy for you to participate in a wide variety of actions sponsored by SHORE, including establishing twinning partnerships between schools and supporting three open calls for funding blue school projects.

Repository of Resources

Creating a repository of comprehensive and accessible resources for educators of all disciplines in compulsory education dedicated to implementing ocean and water literacy principles in classroom instruction

As part of our mission to support the EU Mission Ocean, “Restore Our Ocean and Waters by 2030”, SHORE has created a repository of teaching resources consisting of both newly-developed material from our project partners as well as a curated collection of online resources. Thus, SHORE aims to recognize the wealth of work to promote ocean literacy already accomplished across the globe that can be exploited for the benefit of European schools. Included in our resources you will find a series of SHORE Flicks – short video presentations on the topics of plastics pollution, water scarcity and food waste – designed for audiences of students by age groups: 7-10, 11-14 and 15-18.

The SHORE resources on ocean literacy is broken down into five priority focus areas: sea-based activities, biodiversity, hazardous substances and litter, climate change, and sustainable resources.