Earth Explore Foundation Makes Planet Earth Cool for Kids
Written by Karl Van Amburg   
April 19, 2007
Northern California’s Earth Explore Foundation makes Planet Earth cool to kids

Santa Rosa, CA - - Apr 19, 2007 -- /prbuzz/ -- It’s cool to care about Planet Earth. But how do you get kids to connect with something they hardly know?

One answer is to immerse them in it. In fact, getting young people to turn off their video screens and venture into nature is the mission of the Santa Rosa-based Earth Explore Foundation (www.earthexplore.com), whose environmental adventure programs challenge students and teachers to dive into diverse earth environments, and come away changed for the better.

“We believe learning has to touch the hand to reach the mind,” says Earth Explore director Karl Van Amburg. “Once kids connect to nature, understanding leads to commitment and then action.”

In the past decade the organization has assembled an impressive list of destinations, ranging from the Big Island of Hawaii, to the Northern Rockies, to Yosemite and Monterey. Partner organizations like the University of Hawaii, Cal State Monterey Bay and the Yellowstone Institute guide students in adventure learning, allowing teachers to go along as chaperones, and return to their classrooms with new energy, and new ideas for connecting kids to their planet.

Demand for environmental programs has led Earth Explore to create new experiences to Alaska, Belize and Italy for 2008…part of a continuing commitment to get students out into the natural world.

Recent Earth Explore teacher Alina Henninger from Virginia says “this program encompasses all things that I could wish or hope for any child. The students really built their confidence, independence and knowledge base.” Besides the benefits of travel and hands-on study, students come home with an enhanced understanding of their own impact on the planet.

As twelve year old Lizzie Sainscrainte told us “I learned that many of the world’s animals are endangered and need saving.” Now, with hands-on experience under her belt, Lizzie plans to do something about it.

For further information, contact Karl Van Amburg at EE toll free at 877-224-3623

Earth Explore Adventures
Earth Explore Foundation
4831 Lucy Ct.
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
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Since 1995, the Earth Explore Foundation has worked to put nature back into children's lives. Each year several hundred students and their teachers embark on environmental adventures to spectacular places, learn new things, and earn academic credit in the process.
About the Press Release
It's cool to care. About the Earth that is. Northern California's Earth Explore Foundation connects kids with nature by getting them out of their chairs, and into action.


 
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