Other Projects and Resources

Kids in Creeks: A Creek Exploration and Restoration Program

Teacher Action Grants Program

Exploring the Estuary

Annual Educators Conference


Kids in Creeks

Kids in Creeks is an action-oriented program that assists teachers and their students with studying watersheds, participating in hands-on science and investigating loca environmental issues.Through Kids in Creeks, approximately 20,000 students have stencilled stormdrains, conducted creek-cleanups, sampled creeks for aquaatic insects, conducted water quality tests, planted native plants along creek banks, and participated in regional efforts to educate the public about urban runoff pollution.

Teacher Action Grants Program

This program provides grant monies to educators participating in the Kids in Creeks program. Among the funded projects were:

Exploring the Estuary

Exploring the Estuary is a computer-based public education display that provides information about the ecology of the San Fancisco Bay-Delta Estuary and the impacts of human activities on the ecosystem. This information is exhibited on base maps that are enhanced with the addition of text screens and graphics that pop up at the visitorŐs request. The nearly three hundred screens of information contained within the display are divided into the categories of:

  1. Natural History-Bay-Delta hydrology, geology, biota, and habitats
  2. Using the Estuary-Industrial and municipal dischargers, salt production, shipping, bayshore parks and refuges, and urban runoff pollution
  3. Bay-Delta Issues-Complex management issues about water- diversion, dredging, contaminant loading, and bay fill.

Annual Educators Conference

SFEI sponsors an annual conference for educators, from grades K-college, which focuses on San Francisco Bay ecology and related environmental issues. The first day of the event features a morning of plenary speaakers and the afternoon consists of hands-on workshops. The next three days involve field trips to various Bay area sites.