Wonder. Explore. Learn. Play.

Spring “Empathy” Series

This Spring, our curriculum will focus on empathy—the special human superpower that we use to understand our emotions and see the world through other people's eyes.

To follow are descriptions of our nine Spring/Empathy series lessons, designed in three units to help build three components of empathy:

• Unit 1: “Our Feelings” (lessons 1-3): Emotional empathy—understanding your own emotions.

• Unit 2: “Our Friends” (lessons 4-6): Cognitive empathy—understanding how other people feel.

• Unit 3: “Our Community” (lessons 7-9): Compassionate empathy—taking action to care for ourselves and others.

Winter “Problem Solving” Series

This January through March, we foster kids’ problem-solving skills. Kids will wonder, observe, experiment, and work together—all while developing problem-solving mindsets and learning that it’s fun and healthy to get outdoors all 4 seasons!

Our lessons follow a steady progression and are organized into three units.

1. In our We Are Explorers unit, we discover that there are problems to solve everywhere and there are many ways to solve a problem.

2. In our We Are Scientists unit, we think like scientists to solve big problems, observing, experimenting, and sharing ideas to learn from what we see.

3. In our We Are Changemakers unit, we explore how working together can help us imagine, test and find the best solutions for our community and our planet!