The current situation heavily excludes the older children because they are forced to only play outside time on equipment meant for much younger kids. Planting a garden bed, for each grade level, will offer all children an equal opportunity to learn while enjoying the outdoors. Having a garden bed for each grade will provide a higher quality, hands on learning experience for the children that will also benefit the school itself. This is a salient prospect for children to have a break from the growing use of technology both in classrooms and at home. A core value of Ignite Innovation Academy is to increase connections between teachers, children, parents and the community. Implementing an outdoors gardening program for students will display and facilitate this core value by bringing teachers, parents, and the children together to learn about plant life. Children originating in an urban environment will benefit exceedingly from learning how to plant and grow vegetables and it will open up a positive dialogue about how food is grown and then transported to a grocery
The current situation heavily excludes the older children because they are forced to only play outside time on equipment meant for much younger kids. Planting a garden bed, for each grade level, will offer all children an equal opportunity to learn while enjoying the outdoors. Having a garden bed for each grade will provide a higher quality, hands on learning experience for the children that will also benefit the school itself. This is a salient prospect for children to have a break from the growing use of technology both in classrooms and at home. A core value of Ignite Innovation Academy is to increase connections between teachers, children, parents and the community. Implementing an outdoors gardening program for students will display and facilitate this core value by bringing teachers, parents, and the children together to learn about plant life. Children originating in an urban environment will benefit exceedingly from learning how to plant and grow vegetables and it will open up a positive dialogue about how food is grown and then transported to a grocery