Education for Sharing - Social-emotional learning meets play-based physics education

Children in grades K-12 will become leaders who tackle 21st century challenges such as climate change, extreme poverty, and inequality. It is imperative that we empower these students as agents of change to make an impact in their communities and beyond through STEM knowledge, leadership skills, and civic values. Education for Sharing (E4S) is an international non-profit organization committed to forming better global citizens through educational innovation based on the power of active play. Our programs are structured around a framework of social-emotional learning that uses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to teach about STEM topics, social inequities, and core values. Since its founding in Mexico in 2007, E4S has served over 1.3 million beneficiaries in 8 different countries including the US, Argentina, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. E4S began operations in the US in 2013 and has reached hundreds of beneficiaries in Washington DC and New York, where it operates since 2019. We will discuss our program Science for Sharing and our play-based educational model to teach topics in physics such as electricity, simple machines, and climate change alongside social-emotional skills and social awareness.