Avenues School
Partnership
We collaborate with elementary school classes at Avenues: The World School to develop the curriculum of our Baby Sprout EDU kits. Avenues students interact regularly with our kits in development and provide us with feedback to ensure that they are user-friendly and informative.
Description
We decided to create an educational version of the Baby Sprout aimed at elementary school students in light of the pandemic and our experiences in taking classes online. After meeting with teachers in Avenues's Lower Division, we realized that our negative experience was ubiquitous and exacerbated in the case of education for younger students. Sitting behind a screen all day, kindergartener through third graders alike were missing out on the opportunity to move around and learn kinetically. In the spring of 2021, we introduced a few of our first edition Baby Sprout gardening kits to a class of first graders who had spend almost a full academic year social distancing and taking classes online. They were a hit! Soon after, we continued working with Avenues classes to modify the Baby Sprout into a tool that was fun and engaging to work with for students and satisfied the curricula requirements of teachers.
Impact by the numbers
Impact
$2000 Raised
Partnerships
Hudson Guild
Awards
Seedbank
People Reached
5,000
Recent progress
November 2021
Baby Sprout in more classes
As the Baby Sprout's popularity became evident in the classroom, we began working with students to create an educational tool.
May 2021
The first Baby Sprout in class
We first introduced the Baby Sprout to a first grade Avenues science class after a year of hybrid-style learning. Students got to work with the plants they'd been learning about all year!