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 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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Fall's First Field Trip

Fall's First Field Trip

Monday morning September 26th, 5th grade students in Julie Miereding's Live Oak Charter class arrived in the Steamer Landing parking lot ready for a day of fun and learning in the local outdoors. It was our very first Watershed Classroom field trip of the 2016-2017 school year!

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