ECO BOYS AND GIRLS PEACE & JUSTICE PROGRAM LAUNCH WITH SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND

Search for Common Ground-Lebanon and US Embassy’s Rainbow of Hope are proud to partner with Eco Boys and Girls Peace & Justice Program to bring an engaging educational program to young children about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16. 

Through this unique partnership, Eco Boys and Girls Peace & Justice Program emphasizes friendship, team work, sharing, and respect for one another and their surroundings. Eco Boys and Girls' Patsy Peace is featured, to speak "directly" to children about the values of peace, justice, and inclusion, with the hope to create a children’s sustainable development movement. By allowing children to build trustful and empathetic relationships, the program aims to reduce tensions and foster peace, while deliberately engaging their parents as well.

Search for Common Ground's vision is a world without violence. Founded in 1982, SFCG's mission is to transform the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches, toward cooperative solutions. SFCG has more than thirty years of experience in thirty-five countries around the world transforming social and interpersonal conflicts from destructive to constructive and engage in pragmatic long-term processes of conflict transformation.

ECO BOYS AND GIRLS “ECO BUILDING WITH RAY RECYCLE” & “WIND POWER WITH SAMMY SUN”

Eco Boys and Girls “Eco Building with Ray Recycle” and “Wind Power with Sammy Sun” are featured programs with the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire being shared with families in the new STEAM Innovation Lab. Parents are invited to take home simple instructions on how to recreate the fun at home with their kids. Eco Boys and Girls Science Bites will become a featured program in the STEAM Innovation Lab and scheduled along with a variety of drop-in challenges and projects every day the museum is open.

 
Museum educators will lead several Eco Boys and Girls Science Bites programs, including “Eco Building with Ray Recycle” and “Wind Power with Sammy Sun.” Each challenge encourages kids to look at materials that can be upcycled into something new, and also use engineering skills to construct something durable.
 

The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire is located Dover, NH and offers two levels of hands-on, interactive exhibits for children from newborn to middle school. Children can explore a wide range of subjects, from dinosaurs, music and aeronautics to world cultures, art and natural history. The Silver LEED-certified museum specializes in creating memorable family learning experiences and works closely with schools, social service agencies and educators

ECO BOYS AND GIRLS SCIENCE BITES PROGRAM AT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NH

Earth Day, the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire introduces the ECO BOYS AND GIRLS SCIENCE BITES program. The Children’s Museum has partnered with Eco Boys and Girls to create a series of science demonstrations and activities, featuring the five lovable Eco Boys and Girls characters, each designed to educate pre-K to third grade children about the earth, sustainability and our interconnectedness.

Ernie Earth® preserves the natural world and its ecosystems; Lulu Love® demonstrates the importance of loving herself, others and all living things; Patsy Peace® resolves conflicts so that humans and other living things can exist in peaceful ways; Ray Recycle® shows people ways to reuse, reduce and recycle, and Sammy Sun® spreads the word about conservation and protecting natural resources

The Science Bites program at The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire takes these lovable characters and uses them to introduce environmental concepts in small “bite-sized” projects. For example, one Science Bite featuring Patsy Peace examines Osprey nests and encourages kids to engineer a mini Osprey platform on which these birds could build a nest. The activity uses materials such as masking tape, straws and craft sticks, and is designed so that parents can do it with their children at home, as well as at the museum.