Earth Friends
is a framework of lessons specifically designed for our youngest children to build a foundation for understanding all life and all rhythms on our planet.
THE WHYIt’s time to start teaching young children about where we live and how to live. Because mainstream education is missing the mark.
Earth is a wonderful classroom.
Earth is not only a great classroom for learning everything from colors to critical thinking to data collection, but we can experience profound peace and deep joy when we live in rhythm with Mother Earth.
Earth makes us feel better.
A harmonious relationship with nature boosts immunity, increases executive function, builds strong bodies, and improves mental health. Studies abound that show this.
Are you ready to join the movement with us?
We are rediscovering our beautiful home planet with the next generation. We are teaching them about Earth’s patterns and rhythms. We are introducing them all our neighbors, from fur to fins to feathers, from oaks to flowers to fungi. We are showing them how to grow their own food, to pay attention to the energy we take and the things we make. This is a movement into a time of reciprocity.
All Earth Friends lessons are free! Anyone who is willing can teach them—teachers, parents, kidsitters, camp counselors. they can be taught anywhere—in school, at home, inside, outside, any where children and adults can gather.
↓ learning with EARTH FRIENDS ↓
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Module 1
Children learn that Earth is our shared home and we need to take care of our Goldilocks planet because it sustains all life.
balance
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Module 2
Children learn that we share Earth with all other living beings, and everyone deserves, water, food, safe shelter, and a place to play.
reciprocity
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Module 3
Children learn that all living beings need food, what our food sources are, where our food waste goes, and each being’s role in the food web.
nourishment
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Module 4
Children learn that Earth gives us energy from different elements and we use energy to grow, move, and make what we humans need.
possibility
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Module 5
Children learn that our things are made from what Earth gives us, where our things go, and how what we create impacts all beings.
ingenuity
Earth Friends value:
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Reciprocity was once described as “falling and being able to get back up.” Robustness, however, “is not falling in the first place.”
Earth Friends nurtures the relationships found throughout all of life—the interconnected awesomeness—and through those relationships we can widen our experiences and wisdom. When living in constant flow of giving and receiving with every being and every thing around us, we are living in circularity.
To teach oneself to live a circular flow with all beings, is the best preparation we have for the uncertain future we face. We learn how not to fall.
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Earth Friends learning affirms life.
When children pay attention to the source of our food, they learn to nourish their body. When children deepen their love for nature, they nourish their soul. When children understand their place in the world, they foster their joy.
A generation of healthy, aware, happy humans will nourish our whole society.
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Earth Friends believes that the children of today are going to be the doers, dreamers, artists, architects, leaders, innovators, and problem-solvers of tomorrow. Only through seeing our world through the lenses of love, curiosity, and wonder will they invent a happy, healthy, and vibrant future for all.
