Imagine that you were an alien dropped from space straight into your home. You don't know a wall from a door, a light switch from a thermostat, or an oven from a downspout.
Not so easy a place to navigate huh? If you could find the thermostat at all, you might turn up the heat way too much and be miserable, or maybe leave the frig open and go hungry, or leave the water running and flood the place.
The point is, you need some knowledge to guide you, or before long, your home just isn't one anymore.
The same things goes for Planet Earth. And that's why connecting kids and teachers with the earth sciences is like giving us humans the owners manual for this planet. When we know how it works, we can turn the right switches and make (some of) the right decisions, actions that will insure its, and our future.
We already know what happens when we don't have all of the pages to the manual, and worse when we don't read the ones we do have. Things tend to come off of the tracks, so to speak, and you get irritating developments like climate change, species extinction, and all the rest.
Now, you and I both know that it's human nature to not read the book. We like to rush right in and turn the switches and see what happens. But this isn't Christmas morning...there is a lot more at stake here.
At Earth Explore, we like to share with kids the pages to the planetary owners manual that we do have. To take them out and show them how their home works. But in an exciting, hands-on way. So that they become inspired to pass their knowledge along, and also, just maybe, go foward and add some pages. Insuring that we humans have a chance to enjoy this planet for a long time into the future.
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