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Welcome! Here you will find all 5 of our Earth Friends modules, complete with lessons, activities, and more. Keep scrolling down for partnership lessons and content. All material is free for you to use and donations are greatly appreciated.
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.
Learn about how Earth is our shared home and that we need to take care of our home planet because it sustains all life.
This download includes: all 5 lessons in Module 1: We Love Our Planet + Community Event
We learn that Earth gives us energy from different elements and we use energy to grow, move, and make what we humans need.
This download includes: all five lessons from Module 4: We Love Our Energy + Community Event
We learn that we share Earth with all other living beings, and everyone deserves, water, food, safe shelter, and a place to play.
This download includes: all 5 lessons of Module 2: We Love Our Neighbors + Community Event
We learn that our things are made from what Earth gives us, where our things go, and how what we create impacts all beings.
This download includes: all five lessons in Module 5: We Love Our Things + Community Event
We 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.
This download includes: all five lessons of Module 3: We Love Our Food + Community Event
Together adults and children can share in an imaginative and creative activity that showcases the interconnectedness of all life on Earth.
Partnership Lessons
objective: to understand the importance of bats in our ecosystem; learn about their specific and unique adaptations to survive and thrive; and explore how bats and humans have some of the same features
by: Bat Conservation International & Earth Friends
objective: to understand the mangrove wetland habitat in coastal ecosystems; to learn that mangroves are able to grow in tropical climate zones with high salinity; to discover what is unique to mangroves
by: Mangrove Action Project & Earth Friends
Does every child have to be absolutely prepared to read words, write their name, count to 100, tie their shoes, and conquer kindergarten? No. No way! But we the adults can set up our eager preschoolers with confidence in themselves and a curiosity to learn.
Spin the wheel to open up a world of fun, connection, curiosity, and love for all life on our planet with your preschooler.
READY? download the image to the left to create your own spinwheel.
SET… Take your first spin to see what you land on.
LEARN! Download the lesson below and get ready to practice getting ready for kindergarten and learn about our magical planet.
Each slice of the wheel links you to a set of practices to prepare any young child for kindergarten.
Want to skip the spinning and get right to the learning? Scroll down to access any one of the 6 lessons + vocabulary words and a reading list to support this learning.
