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Pittsburg Students Serve Up Science! 

Is the fish we catch from the San Francisco Bay-Delta safe to eat? Students from Foothill Elementary in Pittsburg led a cooking show-style Safe Bay-Delta Fishing and Cooking demonstration to teach their family members how to safely prepare fish caught in the San Francisco Bay-Delta. During this special presentation, students cooked rockfish tostadas in their classroom and taught their families how to safely choose, prepare, and eat fish caught from the bay.

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Healthy Atmosphere, Healthy Ocean: Exploring the Impacts of Ocean Acidification

Students at Piedmont Elementary School in Oakland completed an Ocean Acidification Action Project to learn about the impacts of acidification on marine organisms, and how to prevent ocean acidification by conserving energy and reducing carbon dioxide pollution. Through applied, hands-on science, the young Environmentalists discovered firsthand the importance of keeping our oceans healthy, and the consequences of our reliance on energy from fossil fuels. This Action Project empowered our young scientists to take action to protect the delicate balance of the marine food web and make behavior changes to reduce their carbon footprints. 

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Advocacy in Action: Addressing Corporate Responsibility for Plastic Pollution

After learning about the harmful impacts of plastic pollution and completing a plastic brand audit of the trash they cleaned up in their watersheds, students wrote purposeful and persuasive letters urging corporations to take responsibility for the plastic they produce. “PepsiCo is the most common polluter at our school,” shared Zihan, a student at Montalvin Manor K-8 School in Richmond. “I want companies to know that kids care about the problem of plastic pollution, and we want change,” shared Elias. By integrating a new Plastic Brand Audit Action Project into our Watershed Education Programs, KIDS for the BAY is taking this one step further by empowering students to investigate the sources of plastic pollution and hold those responsible for producing it accountable.

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El Cerrito Environmentalists Restore Cerrito Creek 

KIDS for the BAY students in Teacher Sarah Chang’s fifth grade class at Harding Elementary School in El Cerrito helped protect the health and biodiversity of Cerrito Creek. Guided by Friends of Five Creeks volunteers and KIDS for the BAY Educators, students removed wild onion and catchweed bedstraw from the creek habitat, using trowels to pry up invasive plants.  “It’s important that we’re pulling up all of the root systems so that the native plants, like horsetail and white root, can grow,” shared Ulises. 

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Healthy Sanitary Sewer Systems for Healthy Waterways 

At Harding Elementary School in El Cerrito and Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland, our KIDS for the BAY Environmentalists learned how to keep our sanitary sewer system more healthy and less polluted in a special wastewater lesson made possible by our partnerships with Stege Sanitary District and East Bay Municipal Utility District – Wastewater Division. By building scientific models and conducting scientific investigations, students learned how our wastewater is collected and treated, and gained a new understanding of the importance of wastewater pollution prevention to keep our sanitary sewer system healthy.

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Schoolwide Mural Project Inspires Watershed Connections 

KIDS for the BAY (KftB) interviewed Malcolm X Garden Teacher Rivka Mason and local muralist Prisilla Hine, who collaborated with all 500 Malcolm X Elementary students to create an interactive mural of Derby Creek, which runs underground through the campus, with the help of the KftB Blue Watershed Classrooms program. Rivka and Priscilla shared the delights and challenges of this project, the mural’s role in engaging students in watershed education at Malcolm X Elementary School, and how artistic expression is a vital tool for helping students connect with, and care about, their local environment.

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Berkeley Teacher Brings Blue Watershed Classrooms Program to Her Classroom 

Hazelle Fortich, former Principal and current Transitional Kindergarten (TK) Teacher at Thousand Oaks Elementary School in Berkeley, is going above and beyond to create meaningful, hands-on environmental education opportunities for her TK students! KftB Communications Coordinator Amy Asmussen sat down with Hazelle to find out what her student Environmentalists are learning and doing, and to learn more about her experiences as a participant in the KIDS for the BAY (KftB) teacher-support program, Blue Watershed Classrooms. 

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Coastal Cleanup Day Promotes Community and Collaboration

KIDS for the BAY volunteers including friends and family, staff, past and present, and our Summer Camp families, joined us at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline for the California Coastal Commission’s 41st Annual Coastal Cleanup Day, along with thousands of volunteers across the state. Together we collected over 40 gallons of trash, mostly harmful plastic pollution! 

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New Summer Camp Themes in 2025

KIDS for the BAY featured two new and exciting themes last summer! In Aquatic Science Week, campers had the opportunity to take a deep dive into creeks, ponds, lakes, and the San Francisco Bay. During Marine Science Week, campers were thrilled to explore the unique habitats of the Pacific Ocean. Our special Summer Camp themes helped our young scientists explore nature in a variety of interconnected habitats throughout the San Francisco Bay watershed.  

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