Tag: #scienceeducation

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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