Learning by Doing

Educational Resources

Guides, safety protocols, science experiments and activities to learn how to read the Earth's signals.

Map of Equandia
The Most Important Thing

Safety Protocols

Concrete actions that can save lives. Practice them with your family.

A child takes cover under a sturdy table during an earthquake: drop, cover and hold on.

🌍 Earthquakes: Drop, Cover and Hold On

  1. DROP: Down to the floor, onto your knees
  2. COVER: Under a sturdy table, protect your head and neck
  3. HOLD ON: To the table legs until the shaking stops

⚠️ DO NOT: Run outside, stand in doorways, use elevators

A family walks toward higher ground, away from the rising water during a flood.

🌊 Floods

  1. MONITOR: River levels and the forecast
  2. IDENTIFY: High ground near your home
  3. EVACUATE: If the water reaches your knees
  4. NEVER: Cross moving water

✓ Rule: Turn Around, Don't Drown

Children and an adult evacuate away from a volcano, covering their nose and mouth from the ash.

🌋 Volcanic Eruptions

  1. STAY ALERT: Follow local authorities
  2. PROTECT: Your eyes, nose and mouth from ash
  3. EVACUATE: Perpendicular to the lava flow
  4. SHELTER: Indoors, seal the windows

⚠️ Ash: Do not sweep it dry, use water. It is abrasive like ground glass.

A child stays hydrated and rests in the shade on a hot day, and offers water to an older neighbor.

🏜️ Heat Waves

  1. HYDRATE: Drink water before you feel thirsty
  2. AVOID: The sun between 11am and 4pm
  3. COOL DOWN: Cold shower, damp clothes
  4. CHECK ON: Elderly neighbors and children

🚨 Emergency: Red/hot skin + confusion = heatstroke. Call an ambulance.

Family Emergency Kit

What every family should keep ready. Check it every 6 months.

Family emergency kit: water, flashlight, radio, first-aid kit and supplies neatly arranged.
AMI, the Guardians' backpack

In Equandia, AMI is the backpack that always holds the exact instrument. In the real world, your emergency kit is your very own AMI: put it together as a family and keep it ready before the Earth speaks.

🎒 The Essentials (72 hours)

  • Water (4L per person)
  • Non-perishable food
  • Flashlight + spare batteries
  • Portable radio
  • First-aid kit
  • Essential medications
  • Documents in a sealed bag
  • Cash

🔧 Tools

  • Multi-tool knife
  • Whistle
  • Duct tape
  • Waterproof matches
  • Heavy-duty trash bags
  • Portable phone charger
  • Thermal blanket
  • Spare set of keys

📍 Meeting Plan

Set up 2 meeting points: one near home (a small fire) and another outside the neighborhood (a major disaster). Make sure everyone in the family knows them and how to get there.

Science at home

Science Experiments

One experiment per book. Real Equandia science with household materials, step by step.

Shake Table
🌍 Book 1 · Signals in the Earth

🌍 Shake Table

👦 8-12 yrs · ⏱ 45 min · 👨‍👧 with an adult · 🧰 Materials: set gelatin in a tray, skewer sticks or toothpicks, modeling clay or marshmallows, a ruler

  1. Step 11

    Prepare a tray of firm gelatin: it is your “soil”, and soft ground amplifies earthquakes.

  2. Step 22

    Build two towers: a RIGID one (sticks glued into a stiff cube) and a FLEXIBLE one (sticks joined with clay at the joints).

  3. Step 33

    Set both on the gelatin and shake it side to side, gently then harder. Watch which one falls and which one sways.

The science: In an earthquake, rigid structures crack while flexible ones dissipate energy by swaying: that is why earthquake-safe buildings are designed to move. Soft ground (like the gelatin) amplifies the shaking, just like landfill soils in a city.
Learn more: USGS · The Science of Earthquakes →
Tsunami Simulator
🌊 Book 2 · Echoes of the Past

🌊 Tsunami Simulator

👦 8-12 yrs · ⏱ 30 min · 🧰 Materials: a tray or deep dish, water, sand, blocks (Lego or wood)

  1. Step 11

    Shape a sandy beach at one end of the tray and leave water at the other. Build a village of blocks near the shore.

  2. Step 22

    Lift and drop the bottom on the water side (or push a board) to make one long wave, not a little ripple.

  3. Step 33

    Watch the water climb far up the beach and sweep the blocks away. Repeat with the village farther back and higher up.

The science: A tsunami is not an ordinary wave: it is a long column of water that keeps climbing inland. That is why safe zones are far from the coast and up high. Tsunamis leave marks that scientists read centuries later: echoes of the past.
Learn more: NOAA · Tsunami Warning Center →
The Flower that Drinks Colors
🌱 Book 3 · Deep Roots

🌱 The Flower that Drinks Colors

👦 8-12 yrs · ⏱ 1 day · 🧰 Materials: a white flower (carnation) or a celery stalk with leaves, cups, water, food coloring

  1. Step 11

    Fill cups with water and add plenty of food coloring (red or blue).

  2. Step 22

    Cut the stem base at an angle and place it in the colored water. Wait a few hours, up to a day.

  3. Step 33

    The petals or leaves turn color: the water traveled up inside. Cut the stem in half and see the dyed little tubes.

The science: Plants drink by capillary action, through thin tubes (the xylem). The deep roots of the Equandia forest do the same on a huge scale: they connect and feed the forest. Without roots, the soil dries out and erodes.
Learn more: National Geographic · Capillary Action →
Hurricane in a Bottle
🌪️ Book 4 · Fractured Horizon

🌪️ Hurricane in a Bottle

👦 8-12 yrs · ⏱ 20 min · 🧰 Materials: 1 clear plastic bottle with cap, water, a squirt of dish soap, optional glitter

  1. Step 11

    Fill the bottle 2/3 with water. Add a squirt of dish soap and a pinch of glitter.

  2. Step 22

    Cap it tightly and hold it by the neck. Swirl it in fast circles for a few seconds.

  3. Step 33

    Stop and watch: a whirlpool forms, spiraling down like a funnel, the vortex “eye”.

The science: Water (or air) spinning around a low-pressure center forms a vortex, like in hurricanes and tornadoes. In a warming world these storms grow stronger: the fractured horizon of Book 4.
Learn more: NOAA SciJinks · How do hurricanes form? →
Baking-Soda Volcano
🌋 Book 5 · The Awakening of the Five

🌋 Baking-Soda Volcano

👦 8-12 yrs · ⏱ 30 min · 👨‍👧 with an adult · 🧰 Materials: a bottle, baking soda, vinegar, dish soap, red food coloring, a tray

  1. Step 11

    Set the bottle on a tray and add 3 spoonfuls of baking soda.

  2. Step 22

    Separately mix vinegar + a squirt of dish soap + red coloring.

  3. Step 33

    Pour the mix into the bottle all at once. A foamy “lava” eruption! Try more baking soda.

The science: Baking soda (a base) and vinegar (an acid) react and release CO2 gas; the gas pushes the foam out, just as gas pushes magma in a real volcano. The five elements of Equandia awaken together.
Learn more: USGS · About Volcanoes →
Fog Catcher
💧 Bonus · Real technology from Peru

💧 Fog Catcher

👦 8-12 yrs · ⏱ 1 night · 🧰 Materials: a frame (wood or wire), fine mesh (mosquito net), a container

  1. Step 11

    Stretch the mesh across the frame like a sail.

  2. Step 22

    Stand it upright in a foggy spot, early in the morning. The tiny droplets hit it and stick.

  3. Step 33

    The water slides down into the container. Measure how much you collect in one night.

The science: Fog is water in suspended droplets; a mesh catches them by collection. In Lima and northern Chile there are real “fog catchers” that give water to communities without rain. Equandia science that already exists here.
Learn more: National Geographic · Fog →
Resources by Book

Educational Appendices by Book

Every Equandia book includes 6 appendices with activities, glossaries and guides for educators. Here is a sample; the full appendix comes with each book.

📚 BOOK 1: Signals in the Earth - Educational Appendices ▼

📚 BOOK 2: Echoes of the Past - Educational Appendices ▼

🌳 BOOK 3: Deep Roots - Educational Appendices ▼

💔 BOOK 4: Fractured Horizon - Educational Appendices ▼

🔄 BOOK 5: The Awakening of the Five - Educational Appendices ▼

The full appendix comes with every book

Here you explored a sample. Every Equandia book includes all 6 complete appendices: hands-on activities, teacher's guides, science glossaries and much more.

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