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This project intends to act on the valuation of the identity, heritage and cultural resources related to cod fishing. It is proposed to create a digital learning resource, which involves a set of memories, related to cod fishing. Based on this resource, we offer the creation of a didactic exploration guide, aimed at the school public, which promotes the deepening of issues related to sustainable fishing, such as climate change and its effects on the oceans, and with the preservation of marine species (Principles 5 and 6 of ocean literacy). Salted and dried cod was an inexpensive product, available and easily preserved, and has therefore entered the consumption habits of the Portuguese population until today. Contrary to what happened in other countries, accustomed mainly to include frozen fish, Portugal has not abandoned the consumption of salted and dried cod, being today the biggest consumer of this product. Currently, Atlantic cod is on the list of endangered species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. As a result of unbridled fishing and climate change, cod began to become scarce. Considering the need to develop innovative educational practices, this proposal not only meets most of the learning objectives identified in the document, Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030, but it also intends to contribute to the investigation and adoption of innovative learning strategies, strongly supported by current digital technologies, through the creation and didactic exploration of digital learning objects, and their testing in a school context, with the aim of understanding their impact on science teaching and learning. In support of all the work on creating the teaching resource, we will have Professor Sólveig Jakobsdóttir, head of RANNUM, Center for Educational Research in ICT and Media, at the University of Iceland as a consultant for the project (http://uni.hi.is/soljak/en/).