Schools: Crossroads Community Day School

Teachers: Karen Kesseru & Michael Watt

Grade Level: 7-9th

Collaborators: Daily Acts, School Garden Network of Sonoma County

Essential Question: Does the Crossroad's campus make a positive or negative contribution to the Petaluma Watershed environment?

Project Summary

Students will examine the Petaluma River Watershed through an increasingly focused lens - going from identification of the watershed area down to their immediate environment. Their culminating activity will be to design and begin to implement a landscaped area of the campus that incorporates positive environmental practices.

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Year One

Year Two

Resources

No resources currently available for this project.

Student Work

Presentation created by students in Karen Kessaru and Michael Watts classes for the 2017 Student Showcase.

Photos

Working in the garden.

Planning the garden.

Before work started.

End of year one.

A Winogradsky Column growing microbes from the Petaluma River.

Watershed Classroom

Watershed Classroom supports the implementation of exceptionally engaging curriculum about the Petaluma River and Watershed to educate youth in Petaluma about their place in our environment, how their decisions and actions affect their environment and inspire youth to conserve and celebrate the Petaluma Watershed.