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For children, ages 4 and up

Be a Body Doctor

Grown-ups call this a Physician.

Body Doctor — a Physician at work. Body Doctor picture for kids from Ellis Abel Learns. For families in Pacifica, CA.
  • I help sick people feel better.
  • I listen to hearts.
  • I ask lots of questions.

Why it matters

  • Doctors help babies be born safely.
  • They stop illness spreading.
  • One doctor helps many families.
How a Physician helps the world — Body Doctor world impact picture from Ellis Abel Learns.

You can start today

  1. Listen to your own heart.
  2. Count the beats for ten seconds.
  3. Run around and count again.

You can be a Body Doctor in Pacifica.

For parents

Five steps to encourage a future Physician

Some children in Pacifica, CA will grow up to be a Physician. Right now they are four, and they are asking why the sky is blue.

These five steps are taken from Estonia’s ProgeTiger program, which begins in kindergarten and runs on three pillars — engineering sciences, information technology, and design and technology. Estonian fifteen-year-olds finished top in Europe for both math and science in PISA 2022. The world is short of qualified STEM people; Estonia is the clearest evidence that the shortage is made, not fated.

  1. 1. Start at four, not at ten

    Estonia does not wait for secondary school. ProgeTiger begins in kindergarten, and it is one reason Estonian fifteen-year-olds finished top in Europe for math and science in PISA 2022. The window you are in right now is the one that matters most, and nothing about it requires a device.

  2. 2. Floor robots before screens

    Estonian kindergartens teach the first coding ideas with physical floor robots — Blue-Bot, Qobo, mTiny, Matata Lab — that a child pushes buttons on and then watches drive across a carpet. Sequence, direction, cause and effect, all in the hands. Screens come later and mean more when they do.

  3. 3. Teach the loop, not the answer

    Try, fail, find out why, fix, try again. ProgeTiger's own stated point is that children there learn far more than programming: they learn to solve problems, be creative, collaborate and think critically. When your child is stuck, the most useful thing you can say is "what did you expect to happen?"

  4. 4. One enthusiastic adult beats a curriculum

    Estonia's program runs on a network of teachers they call progetigers — ordinary teachers who got interested, in every county in the country. You do not need a science degree. You need to be the adult who says yes when your child asks to take the toaster apart.

  5. 5. All three pillars, not just coding

    ProgeTiger is engineering sciences, information technology, and design and technology together. A child who only codes misses the half of STEM that involves building something with their hands and deciding whether it is any good. Rotate: build a week, code a week, design a week.

Pacifica has a population of about 38,606.

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