Products
- Established 'Baywatchers' and produced newsletter in 3 languages
- Laminated color photocopies of existing fresh and salt water plants with
explanatory text in English, Spanish and Vietnamese
Activities
- Discovery Night held for community to share information on proper stewardship
of the local watershed
- K-5 studied San Rafael watershed with help of local organizations
Canal Community Alliance
Contact: Betty Diaz/Jaclyn Fabre
Site: San Rafael Canal
Products
- Mural of the canal
- Environmental scavenger hunt
- 'how to' article on protecting local waterways for newsletter
Activities
- Radio segment (in English and Spanish) about water pollution aired on community
radio
- conducted an awareness week promoting water pollution prevention with fun
educational activities for the community
- conducted field trips to the Headlands
- conducted Canal Water class for local clubs
Friends of Corte Madera Creek
Contact: Carole d'Alessio
Site: Corte Madera Creek Watershed
Products
- video of training session
- Creek Watchers Handbook
Activities
- gave training workshop for volunteers
- removed non-native plants from creek
- planted native trees and shrubs near creek
- helped with student plant survey, water, and soil tests
Hill Middle School
Contact: Trudie Behr-Scott
Site: Warner Creek (Novato)
Products
- produced animated video for 4th & 5th graders
Activities
- began plant inventory at creek
- created native plant nursery at school
- students spoke to planning commission about maintaining riparian corridor
Lu Sutton
Contact: Beth Kraft
Sites: Arroyo Avichi, San Jose Creeks and Novato Vernal Pool
Products
- slide presentation
- vernal pool book
Activities
- integrated communication skills into year-long thematic unit on vernal pools
- stenciled storm drains
- went fishing at Scottsdale Pond with "Fishing in the City"
- hatched newts, frogs, and toads
Manor School
Contact: Ann Brown
Site: Manor Creek (Fairfax)
Products
- Manor Creek field guide
- watershed diorama
Activities
- created and presented creek play and educational posters at Fairfax Festival
- painted a creek on school blacktop
- stenciled storm drains
- built a creek model between classrooms
- posted signs on name and care of creek
- made paper mache models of creek birds
- made rope from willow
Marin Horizon
Contact: Hillery Jaffre-Urell
Site: Reed Creek (Mill Valley)
Products
- posters of plants used for medicinal purposes found along local creek
- posters of life cycle of salmon in local creek
- creek water/glitter globes
Activities
- built an entry to creek with Americorps
- replanted creek with native plants
- raised salmon eggs
- Middle School students taught creek awareness to adults and younger students
- created a classroom outside along creek
Mill Valley School District
Contact: Susan Stewart
Sites: Arroyo Corte, Madera del Presidio, Warner, Old Mill, Cascade, Coyote,
Sutton Manor, and Ryan Creeks
Products
- posters about preserving native species
- Marin Environmental Resource Guide
- multimedia project on Warner Creek
- plant book of Coyote Creek
- slides/prints involving removal of non-native and planting of native vegetation
- purchased creek kits for all 5 elementary and middle schools in district
- developed poetry book
Activities
- all district schools participated in Mill Valley Watershed Festival
- a cross generational poetry reading on our backyards was held at the retirement
home
- finalists for "River of Words" read with former poet laureate, Robert Hass
- all schools studied the water, plants and animals of their creek and sent
data to Mill Valley Middle School
- teacher workshop and student field trips with Canoes in Sloughs
Saint Anselm
Contact: Anita Pisciotta
Sites: Corte Madera Creek (San Anselmo)
Products
- watershed brochure about non-point source pollution on Corte Madera Creek
for residents and students
Activities
- distributed brochures to local businesses, families, and friends
- discussed student-produced brochures with peers at 3 other schools
Saint Hilary
Contact: Suzanne Martinez
Site: No specific creek
Products
- constructed watershed diorama
- produced and distributed door-hangers
Activities
- student presentations of diorama
- distributed door-hangers and salmon coloring sheets
San Jose Middle School
Contact: David Moore/Melissa Wrinkle
Site: Pacheco (Novato)
Products
- creek profile mural
Activities
- "Fishing in the City" field trip
- science project, "Discovering Pacheco Creek Through the Lens of Time" with
7th grade studying biology and 8th grade, geology
Save San Francisco Bay Canoes in Sloughs
Contact: Amy Hutzel
Site: No specific creek
Products
- lesson plans and canoe trips on the Bay
Activities
- developed an interdisciplinary watershed program in Marin City walking to
creek, ocean and estuary
- 14 field trips in canoes provided students and teachers an opportunity to
see the wetlands that surround them.
SEED
Contact: Sheila Molyneux
Site: No specific creek
Products
- student newsletter "Earth Care Watch"
- SEED program information
- docent training packet
- watershed guide for Watershed Day field trip
Activities
- sponsored Watershed Protection Day and used local wetlands and wastewater
treatment plant as living lab
- creek restoration at Hamilton
- hundreds of docent presentations
- docent teacher training
- tree planting at San Ramon
Sinaloa Middle School
Contact: Linda LaVere
Site: Vineyard Creek (Novato)
Products
- interdisciplinary creek guide of 11 stations along Vineyard Creek
Activities
- 7th graders studied and sketched the plants and animals of their creek
- 8th graders gave group presentations of specific creek studies
- storm drain stenciling
1996-1997 and 1997-1998
