Our School-Wide Programs are a partnership between KIDS for the BAY and the entire elementary school, including the principal, teachers, students, and students’ families. These long-term, in-depth programs engage each grade level in environmental science and action while providing professional development in science education for each classroom teacher. KftB also provides curriculum, training, and an equipment resource center for the school to continue the program in future years. The lessons and activities for each grade level are directly tied to many California State Content Standards in science, language arts, social studies, and math. After a three year period of support for the school, the principal, teachers, students, parents and community partners continue the program independently as a completely integrated part of their school curriculum and culture.

School-Wide Watershed Action Program
KftB partners with a school for three years to engage the school community in connecting with their local watershed, inspiring the protection and restoration of their watershed, and increasing academic achievement. Students learn about their personal connections with their local creek, San Francisco Bay, and ocean watersheds and the local National Marine Sanctuaries through classroom lessons and field trips. Each class also implements action projects that positively impact the health of their watershed.

School-Wide Creek Education Program
KftB works with the school community to adopt, clean up, and restore a local creek habitat. The creek becomes an outdoor classroom for hands-on learning and environmental stewardship. Students learn about their connection to their local creek and discover reasons to care for their creek watershed.

School-Wide Urban Wilderness Classroom Program
KftB works with every teacher and every class of students at a school to design, create, study and maintain the Urban Wilderness Classroom, an outdoor wilderness habitat located on the school campus. Working with KftB, each grade level is responsible for the design of a different habitat of the wilderness. Once the wilderness is developed, KIDS for the BAY leads lessons for each class to study the various habitats of the wilderness and to cultivate and maintain them.

 

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