With the advancement of the maritime power strategy, enhancing adolescents’ awareness of maritime rights and interests has become an important component of national territory security education. In junior high school, cultivating students’ maritime concepts and awareness of maritime rights and interests is of great signifi cance. This paper systematically sorts out the presentation system of content related to maritime rights and interests in the new junior high school geography textbooks of Hunan Education Publishing House edition, and constructs an educational logical chain of “Understanding the Ocean – Sovereignty Awareness – Strategic Practice.” On this basis, a thematic course on maritime rights and interests was designed and implemented, providing a practical and feasible pathway for integrating maritime rights and interests education into junior high school geography teaching.