Ocean Science Unit - Grade 3 to 6

13 Videos + 7 Printable Experiments + Scope & Sequence + Cross-curricular Teaching & Project Ideas + Curriculum links & more

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A complete unit of work on ocean science
designed for Grades 3 to 6.

Dive below the surface.
Simulate crushing deep-sea pressure, uncover why the ocean is blue, map the thermal mechanics of global underwater currents & mor through hands-on investigations that reveal the hidden forces of the deep.

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Take your students on an expedition to the sea floor. 
Explain the abiotic factors, like light absorption and crushing pressure, that dictate life in the dark. 
It’s an immersive look at the final frontier on Earth.

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7 experiments using everyday items like red cabbage, lemonade, sultanas, vegetable oil, and soda bottles
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Marking Rubrics and Risk Assessment included.

Curriculum Differentiation

Tailor your teaching approach to meet the specific inquiry skills required for Years 3 through 6.

3-4

Middle Primary

Focus on guided inquiry. Use the student experiment templates to help learners transition from observation to predicting outcomes and identifying fair test variables.

Key Focus Areas
  • • Predicting & observing
  • • Organising data in tables
  • • Identifying single variables
5-6

Upper Primary

Emphasis on independent investigation and evidence-based analysis. Utilise marking rubrics to assess student ability to justify conclusions and evaluate experiment design.

Key Focus Areas
  • • Analysing complex patterns
  • • Evaluating reliability of results
  • • Cross-curricular project work

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What Your Students Will Discover

Colours at Depth
Why does red disappear first?
Students learn how the light spectrum is absorbed,
discovering why deep-sea creatures often
look black or red to stay "invisible."  

Colourful Currents
Master thermohaline circulation.
Using warm and cold water with food colouring, students discover how temperature and salinity drive the "Great Ocean Conveyor Belt" around the planet.  

Ocean Acidification Lab
The impact of CO2. 
Using red cabbage juice as a pH indicator,
students simulate how the ocean reacts to atmospheric changes
and what that means for the survival of coral reefs.  

The Pressure Test
Explore why humans need submarines.
Students investigate how water weight increases with depth
and why deep-sea vessels must be built
to withstand thousands of kilograms of force.  

Ocean in a Bottle
Bring the surface to the desk.
Students create a dual-density model using oil and water
to study wave formation and the interaction
between different abiotic layers.  

Dancing Sultanas
Explore buoyancy and compressed air.
Using soda water, students model how gas and pressure
affect the movement of life undewater.

Ocean clean up
What a mess!
Cleaning the ocean after an oil spill
or other pollution is challenging for scientists and engineers.
Your students go through the same process as they model the work done to remove oil and debris from a container and discuss which techniques were the most successful.

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Two bottles on joined together with colourufl water moving betwen them
THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE WOW

Testing Variables,
Not Just "Busy Work".

Science isn't just about the "wow" factor.

In every session, we help students master

Variable Testing

—the ability to isolate a single change to see what actually happens.

CHANGE ONE THING
MEASURE THE RESULT
KEEP THE REST SAME

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This unit is fully aligned with:

- Australia: Version 9.0 (All states) + NSW (2024 Syllabus).  
- USA: Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) + TEKS/Virginia SOL.  
- UK/Canada/NZ: The Ontario Curriculum & NZ Curriculum
- International: IB (PYP & MYP) and Cambridge International. 

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Optional materials to have on-hand include food colouring, two glass bottles, warm and cold water, carboard, red cabbage juice, vinegar, bicarbonate soda, sultanas, lemonade or soda water, plastic cups, sticky tape, coloured markers, a soda bottle & vegetable oil, a kids pool, oil, detergent and dirt 

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