About Sprouts

We create cartoons that explain complicated ideas in simple language. Our goal is to make learning about people, education, and society engaging and accessible.

Here, we bring our animated lessons into articles you can read, revisit, and use as a starting point for discussion. We explore the theories, experiments, and everyday examples that help us understand how we think, learn, and grow.

Ideas for curious minds and classrooms

We create for students, teachers, parents, and anyone who wants a clearer understanding of human behavior. Our animated lessons make social phenomena easier to understand so teachers have more time for active learning.

• Explore Child Development to understand early experiences, relationships, and developmental theories.
• Try Learning Techniques for approaches to studying, remembering, and practicing.
• Browse Teaching Methods for active learning and classroom ideas.
• Discover Social Psychology to examine expectations, conformity, and influence.
• Read our explanations of Mental Health and Economics.

How we make our lessons

Our work brings together writing, illustration, narration, production, and editing. We also collaborate with researchers and educators on selected lessons. On our learning website, we provide research sources, scripts, graphics, and classroom project ideas alongside our video lessons.

We publish on YouTube and support Creative Commons licensing to help our lessons reach more learners. Please check the licensing information for the material you want to use.

Help us keep explaining

Our patrons help us create free educational videos. If you would like to support that work, join us on Patreon.

Our health-related explanations are educational and are not a substitute for individualized advice, diagnosis, or treatment from a qualified professional.