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Seeking 15 Silicon Valley Families for the First Earth Doctors Pilot
A hands-on eco-STEAM adventure where kids measure real home energy, try planet-saving experiments, and take action together as a family.
What is Earth Doctors?
Earth Doctors is a family climate action club designed to make sustainability fun, practical, and measurable.
Instead of just learning about environmental problems, families work together on hands-on experiments and activities that show how to improve their real environmental impact.
Think: Scouts + STEAM + Saving the Planet
Kids explore science and engineering ideas while families try simple actions at home that make a real difference.
Best for ages 6 - 12.
What Families Do
Each week includes a fun eco-STEAM activity your family can do together. Families share their progress as a group, creating a friendly game-like challenge to improve together.
WEEK 1
Imagine Ecotopia
Kick off with a heart-lifting imagination workshop where young Earth Doctors envision the eco-friendly future.
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WEEK 2
Energy Games
We measure real electricity use, rank appliances, create emissions leaderboards, and start the Eco Home Sticker Chart.
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WEEK 3
Make a Green Dollhouse
Learn green building science by creating a green dollhouse or fort using our printable template and passive solar design calculations.
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WEEK 4
Thermal City
Discover why cities warm up by looking at different materials with a FLIR thermal camera and thermal color-changing stickers.
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WEEK 5
Transport Treasure
Students investigate the fuel efficiency of different local vehicles and evaluate emissions in a fun data science mission.
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WEEK 6
Waste Watchers
It's compost week and each child builds a mini worm farm to take home with live worms to care for.
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WEEK 7
Zero Waste Challenge
The whole family commits to using reusable cups, bottles, and containers as students brainstorm creative ways to reduce waste.
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WEEK 8
Veggie Ventures
Students sprout vegetable seeds, encouraging the family to grow food.
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WEEK 9
Water Wizards
Students track home water usage and turn saving water into a game with a shower challenge.
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WEEK 10
Ecosystems
Students become ecosystem explorers, creating Earth seed balls, mapping local flora and fauna, and gifting plants to neighbors.
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WEEK 11
What’s Your Foodprint?
Calculate the environmental impact of various meals using a CO₂ calculator, rank the meals, and gamify the creation of the most eco-friendly meal.
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WEEK 12
Mission Mayor
Students meet their local mayor to read their letters for green ideas and experience the process of civic advocacy.
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Why Kids Love It
The program combines science, creativity, and action, helping kids feel empowered rather than worried about the planet. Best for ages 6 - 12.
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Do real experiments and build things
Families work together to implement 12 practical steps of green living at home. As a family, you will practice every element of sustainable living—from the easy to the more advanced.
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Imagine the future they want to create
Side-step the doom-zone. Equip your child to enter adulthood with a powerful vision for a beautiful world—and the ideas to help make it happen.
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Learn how science and engineering solves problems
Your child develops real skills in clean energy, green building, gardening, data science, and environmental science literacy.
Measure Real World data & influence change
Building brave hearts and souls with confident minds. Speak to the mayor. Ask for the budget. Stand up for what is good.
Why We Are Running a Pilot
This is the first Earth Doctors pilot. We are recruiting a small founding group of 15 families to test and improve the program. Families who join will help shape the program, give feedback, and become Founding Earth Doctors Families
Your participation will help build a program that can reach thousands of families and schools.
Program Details
📍 Location:
Silicon Valley families
In person activities in Mountain View location TBC.
Home-based activities
Zoom calls for parents.
Best for kids ages: 6–12
⏱ Time commitment:
About 1 activity per week (30–60 minutes)
Bonus Zoom calls for parents to co-design, review, and support with
Green home implementation support
📅 Program length:
Approximately 8–12 weeks
Most activities are designed to be simple, fun, and doable with common household materials.
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Commitment Deposit
The full Earth Doctors program is valued at $480 per family, which includes hands-on activities, materials, and in-person gatherings designed to help families take real climate action together.
Because this is our first pilot cohort, we are offering a Founding Families rate of $97 for a small group of families who are excited to participate and help shape the program.
Families selected for the pilot will be invited to reserve their spot with a $97 commitment payment after their application is reviewed. This commitment helps ensure that the families who join are ready to actively participate and complete the activities.
Families who complete the pilot will be recognized as Founding Earth Doctors Families, helping shape a program we hope will reach thousands of families and schools.
Only 15 families will be selected for this pilot.
Co-Design the Earth Doctors Activity Book
Get ready for the Earth Doctors Activity Book, a treasure trove of eco-friendly fun and learning!
Packed with engaging activities and games, this book is designed to inspire young minds to take action for the planet.
With interactive challenges and creative projects, kids will learn about sustainability in a hands-on way.
As a Founding Family, you'll get the chance to be the first people to test out the activities and contribute to the creation of the book.
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How it Works
Step 1:
Apply to Join
Click here to purchase your annual membership to the community for only $97.
Step 2:
We will Select 15 Founding Families
Join the community platform and browse the catalogue of 50+ gamified activities. Check out the calendar and RSVP to a live session. Introduce yourself and make new connections.
Step 3:
You Will be Invited to Enroll
Use the materials for your personal use OR use them to run your own club at your local school or community. We are here to support you prepare your club and provide the extra materials you'll need.
We partner with some of the world’s most influential organizations
Who’s Behind Earth Doctors?
Hello! I’m Katie Patrick—an Australian-American environmental engineer, behavior designer, and mom based in Silicon Valley, California.
I specialize in designing tools, games, and experiences that help people adopt environmentally friendly actions.
I created Earth Doctors because I love teaching kids about sustainability in a way that’s fun, interactive, and scientifically rich.
My goal is to create experiences that help families cultivate lifelong positive change—shaping pro-environmental behaviors, values, and even future career paths in sustainable innovation and climate solutions.
Find me on LinkedIn and Instagram.
Join the First Earth Doctors Pilot
Let's build a new generation home-grown Silicon Valley Earth Innovators.