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Sacramento County Environmental Education Providers List

Local News and Events

• Sacramento Classroom Wins Disney Environmentality Challenge!

• RAFT Now Open!

Model Environmental Education Programs in Sacramento County

• Splash Sacramento

• Calvine High School: Creek Stewards

• Grant's Environmental Organization

Disney Environmentality Challenge Winners 2007 & 2008

Sacramento County was again home to California's Grand Prize Winner of the 2008 Disney Environmentality Challenge. Sylvia Rodriguez's 5th grade class at Phoebe Hearst Elementary earned the top prize for their project, Our Starfish: Native Plants in the American River Watershed. The project included planting a native plant garden at the Effie Yeaw Nature Center, writing a play and making a documentary. Mickey Mouse made a surprise visit to the class to announce the award. The class will be honored at Disneyland in May. Read the story that appeared in the Sacramento Bee at http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/817982.html

Last year's winner was also a Sacramento County classroom. Sutterville Elementary's Mitch Carnie, his class of fifth grade students, and their parents traveled to Disneyland in May 2007 as California's Grand Prize winners. Their project, "The Great Watershed Investigation: Saving Our Burrowing Owls & Raptors," focused on the decline of burrowing owls in the area surrounding the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant.  To read more about the project, see the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service April 10, 2007 journal entry.

If you are a 3rd, 4th or 5th grade teacher interested in entering the 2008-09 Environmentality Challenge, more information and enrollment forms will be available in late summer at www.deckids.com.

RAFT Now Open for Business

The Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT) is now open and serving the greater Sacramento area. RAFT is an innovative program designed to help teachers bring needed materials to their classrooms. RAFT has been in operation for over ten years in the Silicon Valley.  Working in collaboration with the Grant Joint Union School  District, RAFT has now opened a new location at 3136 Howard Street, McClellan, CA.

Visit this exciting educational resource. You may tour the new facility, learn about materials, products and services available to teachers, and find out how RAFT can help bring �hands-on� learning alive in the classroom.

For more information visit http://www.raftsac.org or speak to Mark Anderson at (916) 408-3993, or email Mark at sacraft@grant.k12.ca.us. Top

Sacramento Splash

This is a place-based, watershed education program that provides opportunities for Sacramento County students and their families to explore the diversity of life in our local aquatic ecosystems, including vernal pools (elementary curriculum) and streams (high school curriculum).  Through their studies in the classroom and in the field, students learn the importance of water quality and how they can improve water habitats where they live.
Read about a Sacramento classroom's visit to Splash!

Calvine High School Creek Stewards

In 2006, the Sacramento Urban Creeks Council presented Calvine High School in Elk Grove with the annual Creek Steward Award for the student-led monitoring and restoration work along Strawberry Creek. The Sacramento Bee featured the project in an article on April 20, 2006. Contact Ray Pieterson, RPieters@egusd.net for more information on the project.

Grant Environmental Organization (GEO)

Grant High School's "Grant Environmental Organization" engages youth in entrepreneurial garden and environmental stewardship projects where they develop skills and knowledge to obtain employment, access higher education, improve their health and actively contribute to their community. For more information, contact Ann Marie Kennedy, annmariekennedy@grant.k12.ca.us.

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