Martinez Watershed Rangers Clean Up Mountain View Park
Students from John Muir Elementary School in Martinez walked from their school to Mountain View Park to get outside, connect with nature and take action for the environment.
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Bringing the San Francisco Bay to Life
KftB students from Highland Community School in Oakland buzzed with excitement as Ms. Neda brought the San Francisco Bay estuary to life right inside the classroom! Our young scientists had already learned about the San Francisco Bay watershed, a unique ecosystem that requires protection and care. Now, with real striped bass fish, Dungeness crab, bull kelp, and red algae specimens at their fingertips, they couldn’t wait for a hands-on science adventure that would deepen their connection to the natural world.
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Celebrating Sumona Majumdar, our Chief Executive Officer with Earth Island Institute
In honor of Women’s History Month, KIDS for the BAY is thrilled to highlight Sumona Majumdar, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of our fiscal sponsor, Earth Island Institute, and her leadership in the environmental field.
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Oakland Environmentalists Explore the Wonders of their Watershed
Each of our student Environmentalists begins their KIDS for the BAY program with a Watershed Scavenger Hunt activity to help them connect with nature on their school campus and explore the wonders of their watershed. Third graders in Mr. Marco’s class at Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland couldn’t wait to get outside and explore the local watershed, right on their school campus!
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Wildcat Creek Cleanup: Celebrating 30 Years of Impact
Thirty years ago, KIDS for the BAY joined forces with Dover Elementary School and the City of San Pablo to lead a creek cleanup at the local community park. Since the first cleanup, we have hosted this event every year with help from school students and their families. This year’s 30th Annual Wildcat Creek Cleanup was a huge success! KIDS for the BAY (KftB) staff, students and partner teachers, alongside representatives from the City of San Pablo, and high-school environmental leaders from Earth Team, removed 1,040 pounds of trash from Davis Park and Wildcat creek. That’s over half a ton!
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Hayward Students Discover Jobs in the Watershed
KIDS for the BAY Environmentalists from Glassbrook Elementary School in Hayward visited Sheep Camp Creek, a beautiful watershed area in Sunol and protected habitat for the California red legged frog and the tiger salamander. Partner volunteer biologists and engineers from Avila and Associates Engineers Inc. helped our young watershed scientists dissect owl pellets, observe owl hatchlings, investigate aquatic invertebrates, and witness metamorphosis up close
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Small Acts, Big Impacts: KIDS for the BAY Students Help Take on Big Plastic
KIDS for the BAY (KftB) is excited to be a bigger part of the solution to reducing plastic pollution and microplastics in 2024. Our young Environmentalists have recorded the types and amounts of plastic pollution collected in school neighborhood, creek, bay and ocean cleanups for many years. Now we’re going a step further by tracking the brands of plastic trash they collect, as part of a Plastic Pollution Audit based on the Break Free From Plastic Guidelines. By sharing our students’ data with Earth Island Institute, our fiscal sponsor, we are helping to bring the first major lawsuit of its kind against the biggest plastic polluting corporations.
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Cleveland Elementary School Environmentalists Help Restore Lake Merritt
Lake Merritt is a short walk from Cleveland Elementary School, and some lucky fourth graders had the special opportunity to help restore their local watershed habitat in a special lake-side planting project.
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Storm Drain Rangers Speak Up!
At the culmination of the Storm Drain Rangers Program at Guy Emanuele Jr. Elementary School in Fremont, fourth and fifth grade students had the wonderful opportunity to test the power of their voices and inspire an audience full of their peers to take environmental action!
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Clean Neighborhoods, Clean Watersheds
Our young environmentalists walked to Crab Cove from their school, and they were very happy to connect with the nature all around them.
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