Project Description:
Using water quality monitoring kits, students in sixth-grade science classes learned to measure water quality in a creek at Hager Park in Georgetown Township near their school. Teachers incorporated macroinvertebrate monitoring with chemical water tests to measure water quality. In addition, students cleaned and marked storm drains on and around school grounds to reduce stormwater impact to the local watershed. To support these efforts, students designed and distributed informational materials related to their project.

Fostering Lifelong Stewardship:
This place-based project has empowered students with future difference-making skills. Students know first-hand how to make decisions in their personal lives that reflect what they have learned from this project.

Partners:
LGROW, Georgetown Township

Teachers:
4

Students:
60

Funder:
Baldwin Foundation

Showcase Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhWeQhpCeC0&t=35s

Project Description:
Sixth-grade students toured best management practices in Kent County, then shared their experience and knowledge about green infrastructure with the second grade students at Pinewood. The two grades took a field trip to North Ravines, an Ottawa County Park, where the sixth-grade students educated and guided the second-graders about biodiversity, native/non-native plants, water quality, and best management practices.

Fostering Lifelong Stewardship:
As a result of working with Georgetown Township and touring the Grand Rapids Wastewater Treatment Plant and City of East Grand Rapids Parks, students now understand the impact of green infrastructure on our surface water.

Partners:
Georgetown Township, LGROW

Teachers:
2

Students:
108

Funder:
Baldwin Foundation

Showcase Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-y_HpBX7NE