Urban Sustainability
Cycles’ program is perfectly suited to experiential, place-based education, and in the year 2000 we developed a six-week course for science classes called “Watershed Guides“. This dynamic standards-based program works from first-hand experience to give students an in-depth understanding of the watershed where they live. Through a series of in-class lessons, field trips, and a final public education/action project, students weave the fields of biology, geology, botany, history, and ecology into their daily lives. Our eighteen participating classes have produced watershed atlases, watershed guidebooks, live perfomances and public expositions for the wider community that have the increased the appreciation of Oakland’s beautiful places and awareness of urban ecology issues.
By taking part in Cycles’ programs, youth gain strong and lasting connections to the living world and the larger community. These connections become a foundation for reshaping the relationships between people and land to make our urban neighborhoods healthy and sustainable.
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