Experiential Learning for Children

Today, urbanites are increasingly disconnected from their food, as they are isolated from agricultural land and activities. Coupled with modern food processing and the ever-trending automation of industrial farms, growing food is less human and more machine, which has equated to a loss of food diversity and understanding of food’s importance in our lives. Furthermore, the departure from the soil food web has not only affected the purity of our food, but also affected human health and the health of our planet.

The objective of this program is to get children involved in growing produce and to cultivate their understanding of the importance of food sources and the impacts of those sources on their health and the planet.

The program will include a digital platform and a hands-on component involving tinyFarms in classrooms to help children learn how to grow, while also understanding the importance of where their soil and seeds come from. The program will furthermore partner with like-minded intiatives with high K-6 distribution across the globe.

Program Features:

• Teach children about their sources of food

• Provide customizable curriculum for grades K-6 that will offer educators an experiential classroom learning experience about sources of food. The curriculum will emphasize the soil food web and demonstrate how living soil is as critical as a limb of a living being when it comes to food. Discussion of the soil food web will include:

  • Carbon and its role in all living things, including its role in soil

  • Carbon sequestration as it relates to climate change

  • Biology as it relates to the 10s of 1000's of microorganisms and their jobs to do

  • Regeneration and sustainability

• Experiential learning with tinyFarm as a learning tool