Ocean Literacy Scope & Sequence for Grades K-12

The Ocean Literacy Scope and Sequence for Grades K–12 is an instructional tool that provides guidance to educators to help their students’ achieve a full understanding about the ocean in ever more complex ways across years of thoughtful, coherent science instruction. The content is provided as conceptual flow diagrams for each of the seven Ocean Literacy Essential Principles in four grade bands: K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12.

Are you new to conceptual flow diagrams? See the Introduction to Conceptual Flow Diagrams for a description of how to use these documents.

Conceptual Flow Diagrams

Download the Scope and Sequence for each Essential Principle at each Grade Band below. Each section of the Scope and Sequence is available in two versions: a version with information presented as conceptual flow diagrams (linked below) and a version that includes the same information organized in an accessible table format that can be used with screen readers (available here).