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Activities & Games
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Critter Cards and Games
Collect marine mammal 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 Monterey Bay animals, such as sea otters, an octopus or a wolf-eel.
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Life in the Deep Interactive
Take a trip into the deep sea of Monterey Bay and explore three distinctive habitats—canyon walls, midwater and seafloor. 
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Deep Sea Memory Game
Challenge your friends to our online deep sea matching game—lowest score wins.
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Dive into the Deep
Create an undersea scene and discover what a submersible sees as it dives deep in Monterey Canyon.
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Life On the bay Resources
On Our Web Site
Explore Monterey Bay's Submarine Canyon
- In Monterey, the deep sea lies close to shore, with nearby ocean depths reaching more than 10,000 feet (3,048 m). Take a virtual dive into the deep sea to explore and learn about the strange and marvelous animals that live there.
Ocean Explorers Activities: Busy Otters and Otters' Favorite Foods
- These activity sets are a fun way to enrich and extend your visit to the aquarium. In Busy Otters, kids learn about sea otters, what they do all day and how they stay warm. Otters' Favorite Foods focuses on what sea otters like to eat, their habitat and food webs.
Sea Searchers Handbook (PDF Format)
- Download the entire handbook or individual chapters about each Monterey Bay habitat, along with the animals that live in them and fun activities to do as a family or in the classroom.
You'll find more educational resources in our Classroom Learning and Resources section.
External Links
American Cetacean Society
- The American Cetacean Society provides a full complement of educational resources and teaching curricula as well as conservation issues and reports regarding most marine mammals.
eNature
- Owned by the National Wildlife Federation, eNature.com provides field guides to marine mammals throughout the world.
Marine Mammal Center
- The Marine Mammal Center rescues, rehabilitates and then releases injured marine mammals. Their site includes research and other information about sea otters as well as profiles of marine mammals they've rehabilitated.
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
- Official web site of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary complete with scientific characterizations of important bay habitats, overviews of research programs and information for visitors.
National Marine Mammal Laboratory
- Located in Seattle, the National Marine Mammal Laboratory provides valuable educational resources, library access and careers in marine science.
Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN)
- SIMoN is a long-term program that takes an ecosystem approach to identifying and understanding changes to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Their marine mammals pages include information about the diverse assembly of marine mammals in Monterey Bay and ongoing 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 elephant seals, California sea lions and whales. TOPP hopes to provide insights on where open ocean species breed and feed.
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