KIDS for the BAY Scientists in Distance Learning
Check out our crowd favorite ‘eggsperiment’ to find out how we teach about the different types of water in the bay and their densities!
Reimagining Hands-On Environmental Science Learning
Read about how we are making online-learning engaging and our interactive programs we are teaching this year!
Student Environmentalists Lead Neighborhood Trash Cleanup Projects!
Incredible Environmentalists in San Pablo lead their own neighborhood cleanups to participate in this year’s Covid-safe Annual Wildcat Creek Cleanup!
Bringing the Beach Indoors!
Even though we can’t go to the ocean, we can still have a beach day! KIDS for the BAY Program Manager/Instructor Sienna Kuykendall created an exciting virtual Field Trip to Muir Beach for her third through fifth grade special education students at Manzanita Community School in Oakland.
A New Generation of Inspired Environmentalists
Schools are unfortunately closed across the world, but many students in the San Francisco Bay Area are ending the school year with a much stronger environmental ethic! KIDS for the BAY partnered with local elementary schools in September to deliver environmental science education programs.
Bay Area Students Honor the Work of Cesar Chavez
Fifth grade students at Gregory Gardens Elementary School in Pleasant Hill explored healthy and unhealthy elements of their local environment with KIDS for the BAY (KftB) in their Watershed Action Program (WAP) and were eager to take action to make their own watershed healthier for all.
We all live in the San Francisco Bay Watershed!
“Is there really a shed in your backyard that’s full of water?!” KIDS for the BAY Instructor, Ms. Sienna asked students at Manzanita Community School. “No!” exclaimed the students. Mr. Wallace’s third grade class was learning about the San Francisco Bay watershed, the complex and layered environment that they live in, but most students hadn’t ever heard the word ‘watershed’ before this lesson.
Storm Drain Rangers Take Center Stage at Rosa Parks Elementary School
Kaelin, a third grader in Berkeley, couldn’t believe her ears when she learned that over seven trillion pieces of microplastic enter the San Francisco bay every year! She had just learned that pollution enters the bay through storm drains and the sewer system, but it was hard for her to wrap her mind around how much it is! She knew she had to do something — and she wasn’t alone.
How Can One School Help?
In fall 1993, KIDS for the BAY third grade students at Dover Elementary School in San Pablo decided that they had had enough of all the trash in their local creek!
#TrashTag
During the Coastal Clean Up dat KftB staff and volunteers cleaned up 2550 pieces, totaling over 46 gallons, of trash! Across the East Bay volunteers removed 24,856 lbs of trash and 2,195 lbs from the coast! Continue to celebrate the spirit of Coastal Clean Up Day with your own #TrashTag!