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Activities & Games
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Shark School of Art
Learn some tips on how to draw sharks and create your own cartoons & comics.
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More Shark & Ray Activities
You will find many more shark and ray activities in our Sharks: Myth and Mystery exhibit section.
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Critter Cards and Games
Collect shark critter cards to color, play games with, or use to create your own field guide.
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Coloring Pages
Print personalized pages of your favorite outer bay animals like sharks and jellies.
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Outer Bay Resources
On Our Web Site
Sea Searchers Handbook: Open Sea Chapter (PDF Format)
- Information about the open water habitat, the pelagic
 animals that live there and fun activities to do as a family or in the classroom.
Seafood Choices to Help Turtles, Tuna and Sharks
- What seafood you buy makes a difference to the future of sharks, turtles and other ocean animals in trouble. Learn why your seafood choices matter.
Shark and Ray Activities
- We've got lots of fun activities related to sharks and rays. Make a tribal shark mask. Identify shark and ray survival skills. Learn to draw shark cartoons!
Tuna Research and Conservation
- The Tuna Research and Conservation Center—a collaboration between the aquarium and Stanford University—tags giant bluefin tuna in the ocean and studies them at their facility.
White Shark Research and Conservation
- The aquarium's multi-year white shark research program uses satellite tagging of juvenile white sharks to collect data about their life history. The aquarium hopes that this data collection leads to better management of shark populations in the wild and changes public attitude about this maligned ocean predator.
Your Actions Can Help Save Sharks
- Your everyday actions and choices are the key to a future where healthy oceans are rich with sharks and other wildlife. Find out about the threats sharks face and what you can do to help.
You'll find more educational resources in our Classroom Learning and Resources section.
External Links
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Pelagic Predators
- Descriptions, news and activities of current research projects involving open ocean habitats and animals.
- MBARI scientists, engineers and staff collaborate on a range of marine research projects. The projects span the interdisciplinary fields of ocean science, including marine biology, ecology, chemistry and geology.
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Pelagic Zone
- A comprehensive and educational scientific characterization of the open seas habitat in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Ocean Section
- NOAA's ocean section spotlights many of its different services and agencies responsible for the management of ocean areas. This section includes a link to NOAA Ocean Explorer to follow ocean explorations in near real-time.
Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN) Open Ocean Overview
- SIMoN is a long-term program that takes an ecosystem approach to identifying and understanding changes to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Their open ocean pages include information about the pelagic habitat outside Monterey Bay and ongoing open water monitoring projects.
Tagging of Pacific Pelagics (TOPP)
- A collaboration among the world's scientists, the Tagging of Pacific Pelagics program use satellite tagging technologies to track 22 species of pelagic animals, including tunas, sharks and whales. TOPP hopes to provide insights on where open ocean species breed and feed.
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