Colombian Mushrooms is a beautifully illustrated, bi-lingual
Spanish/English children's book that uses Gunter Pauli's ZERI*
Education model to teach children science. The book includes a
teachers and parents guide and hands on activities that help
children apply what they have learned. Gunter Pauli's ZERI*
Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young
adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound
academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop
their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and
artistic/creative capacities. If children are to learn how to
think, design, create, and dream in systems, then they must be
exposed to systems thinking at an early age. Critical concepts
become part of the child's long-term memory and the student
gains an intuitive grasp of the big picture. Then the learning
of the specific tools, concepts, and principles involved become
far more appealing. When students start with a story that
integrates ethics, economics, biology, and mathem