From the Classroom

The Watershed Classroom Gets Oriented!

The Watershed Classroom Gets Oriented!

The Watershed Classroom is about supporting teachers implementing exceptional Petaluma Watershed curriculum. What this means is we at Friends of the Petaluma River spend a lot of time speaking with teachers, training teachers, coordinating with teachers… Don’t get us wrong, we love teachers! Our guiding principle is that educators are our community's most valuable resource.

Yet we realized that there was one piece missing from our side of the Watershed Classroom experience: STUDENTS! Though we sometimes get to work with students during field trips or at our end of the year Student Showcase, many participants in the Watershed Classroom had not even heard of the program. We decided it was time for a change.

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Project Highlight: Each One Matters

Project Highlight: Each One Matters

Kesseru and Watt are entering their second year in the Watershed Classroom with their project called Each One Matters. In collaboration with Daily Acts and the School Garden Network of Sonoma County they are building a garden on campus, filled with native plants and flowers.

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Welcome Fall 2017 Projects!

Welcome Fall 2017 Projects!

It’s a new semester and a new year in the Watershed Classroom! I want to say a big welcome back to our four Fall projects. All projects are now up on our website. Just click on the project's names to be taken directly to their pages!

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Project WET Petaluma!

Project WET Petaluma!

This year our vision was to connect teacher with resources that will help them deepen into their Petaluma based environmental education by guiding them through watershed focused curriculum and showing them first hand the many opportunities for outdoor education available in Petaluma.

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