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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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From Bay to Coast: Richmond Students Build Coastal Connections

This school year, with the support of California Coastal Commission’s Whale Tail Grants Program, KIDS for the BAY (KftB) empowered hundreds of Richmond students and families to lead a lifetime of watershed and ocean stewardship. Our Environmentalists embarked on special field trips to bay and ocean beaches, where they learned about our ocean, what the ocean provides for people and wildlife, and the importance of caring for the marine ecosystems we all depend on. 

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Where the Wildflowers Grow: Hayward Students Explore Bay Area Blooms at Sunol Regional Wilderness 

unol Regional Wilderness is an amazing place to glimpse wildflowers, from the instantly recognizable California poppy to lupine, native irises and California lilac. Students from Burbank Elementary School in Hayward loved discovering nature, including several species of wildflowers native to the San Francisco Bay Area, on their field trip to Sunol Wilderness! 

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