New Zealand ocean creatures, Under the water, 20 worksheets + Answers

TOTAL OF 20 WORKSHEETS and drawings to colour in throughout

Comprehension worksheets:

What lives in the reefs?

What lives on the sea floor?

What lives out in the open ocean?

Plankton and other small sea creatures

Squid, octopuses, crayfish and crabs

Rays and sharks

Whales

Dolphins

Seals and penguins

Seabirds

Glossary – Meanings of words

Alphabetical order

Word Search

Crossword

ANSWERS

Based on this popular book, but the worksheets can be completed with your own resources.

UNDER THE OCEAN, explore & discover New Zealand’s sea life

By Ned Barraud (illustrator) and Gillian Candler (author)

Under the Ocean introduces young children to the creatures that live in the seas around New Zealand. The book describes different habitats: underwater reefs, the sea floor, the open ocean and the deep ocean. Animals featured in the fact pages include octopus and squid, sharks and rays, whales, dolphins, penguins and many others.

Under the Ocean is the third volume in the Explore and Discover series, following Gillian Candler and Ned Barraud’s best-selling At the Beach, which was a finalist in the non-fiction section of the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards, and the popular title In the Garden.

Under the Ocean was written in response to children’s requests to have a book that included sea creatures such as sharks, octopus and giant squid. Although children can’t explore the sea first hand in the way they can explore a garden or the beach, they are fascinated by the amazing creatures that live in the ocean.