This skill motivates kids to value and help their environment, community, as well as their own health. Kids start off at the barnacle level and are given a variety of missions to complete. These missions in some cases directly help the environment, the community, or the kiddo, such as picking up trash, talking to someone new at school, or trying new vegetables. But there are also missions that are more about building awareness and instilling joy in the small things around us such as watching a spider build a web or finding a tree to be a friend. As kids complete missions, they upgrade to other animal levels and have an option to skip missions they don't want to do.
The goal of this skill is to energize and make sure kids really see their environment, the people in their community, and themselves. Maybe someday they will change the world, maybe they won’t… but at the very least they’ll notice when someone throws some trash on the ground and doesn’t pick it up. :)
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For reference, there are a total of 30 missions to complete over time, to get a sense of the skill, the first 10 missions are: - Go look in the mirror and tell yourself five things you love about yourself (self care) - Find a tree to be your friend (environmental awareness) - Try at least one bite of a fruit you've never eaten before (self care) - Get some seeds and plant them, they can even come from fruit you eat today (environmental awareness) - For your next washing, take a shower instead of a bath to use less water (environmental awareness) - Write down, or have someone help you write down, ten things you are grateful for (self care) - Build a 'cairn', which is a stack of rocks (environmental awareness) - Find a buddy and decide to laugh together (self care) - Write down or get some help writing down 10 things you can do to make less trash (environmental awareness) - Find a spider in a spider web and spend at least 10 minutes watching it (environmental awareness)
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