InsideOut

Good Thinking! Students will learn how to work cooperatively to design plans for a sidewalk garden beside their school or home. They will learn how their school or home sidewalk garden fits into the local ecosystem. Students will also learn how these gardens can improve the local ecology by collecting rainwater and feeding the roots of plants and trees. The way it is now, rainwater runs on top of the cement and into the storm drains. These drains send the water to be treated as sewage, and during heavy rains, sewage overflows into the Bay and Ocean. Through brainstorming, designing and learning together, students will learn how to accomplish projects that would be much harder to do alone.