Project Presentation
South Sound GREEN:
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South Sound GREEN
New info:
Vision
A community with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to act as stewards of our local watersheds.
NEW Mission
Connecting community and schools for watershed protection.
Mission Statement
To develop, through community based watershed studies, a local citizenry with the knowledge, skills and motivation to act collaboratively on local environmental challenges and create globally sustainable lifestyles.
Goals
- Develop an informed and empowered citizenry
- Create a learning community that utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to learning and problem solving.
- Foster community partnership and global networks
- Enhance and protect watershed as ecological systems, including quantity and quality of surface water, ground water and fish and wildlife habitats
South Sound GREEN (Global Rivers Environmental Education Network) is a Thurston County watershed education program, involving over 1200 students (grades 4-college) annually. Schools include North Thurston, Olympia, Tumwater, and Griffin School Districts, St. Martin's College, The Evergreen State College, and occasionally private schools and home-schooled students.
Students conduct stream investigations that include:
- Water Quality Monitoring, semi-annually stream monitoring in order to have a better understanding of the water quality in our local watersheds.
- Macroinvertebrate Sampling includes the annually sampling of local streams for benthic macroinvertebrate or "stream bugs" in late September and early October.
- Action Projects have included outreach education by students including; writing news articles, staffing booths or activities at watershed festivals, presenting information before public meetings, stenciling storm drains and planting trees and shrubs in the watershed to improve riparian habitat
Projects Completed
Projects Ongoing
- Field Studies, salmon spawning, shellfish and bird identification.
Water quality monitoring in the field
Action Projects
Student oriented research project support
Field observation of spawning salmon
- Annual Student GREEN Congress, students attend workshops to learn new skills and information concerning the environment.
They present the data they have gathered throughout the year discuss possible causes of pollution or poor conditions
Formulate recommendations for improving the health of the watershed.
Collaborative Data Analysis
Watershed Action Declaration
Skill building workshops
South Sound GREEN is sponsored by Thurston Conservation District, Thurston County, the Cities of Olympia, Tumwater, and Lacey, and Trout Unlimited. Additional program funding is provided through grants from the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Cooperative Projects, South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group and other local gracious foundations
Friends of GREEN (FROG), exists as a non-profit funding-raising entity that provides funds for South Sound GREEN.
*South Sound GREEN also provide numerous training opportunities for teachers
Chemical water quality monitoring
Macroinvertebrate training
Summer Teachers’ Institute
LINKS ON SITE
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GREEN Calendar
Water Quality Monitoring
Macroinvertebrates
Action Projects
Field Trips
Annual Student GREEN Congress
Summer Teacher's Institute
Friends of GREEN
Additional info
Map of watershed
Resources for educators
Master data forms
Individual data forms
