Eco-Oakland Program

Eco-Oakland offers year-round environmental education to elementary school students and their families in East Oakland.

Golden Gate Audubon staff and volunteers work closely with teachers to provide opportunities for fourth and fifth grade students—and their families—to explore and learn about their local environment in the classroom and on field trips.   Students discover how their lives connect with local habitats and ecosystems. Through creative, hands-on activities, they learn about the ecology of the local watershed, first in their classrooms and schoolyards and then on field trips to nearby creeks and Arrowhead Marsh, and finally to the Pacific Ocean. In each area, students learn about and help restore local wildlife habitats. Families are invited on the ocean trips, for many a first-time experience.

Our Goals

• Provide greatly needed environmental education programs to the East Oakland community
• Inspire environmental stewardship within the community by connecting people with their local environment
• Engage East Oakland residents in protecting local wildlife and habitats
• Improve student achievement in science, math, and literacy through "place-based" environmental education

Programa Eco-Oakland

Eco-Oakland ofrece la educación ambiental a lo largo de todo el año a los estudiantes de la escuela primaria y a sus familiares en el este Oakland.

El personal y los voluntarios de GGA trabajan cerca con los profesores para darles la oportunidad a estudiantes de tercer a quinto grado—y sus familias—de explorar y aprender sobre su ambiente local en el salón de clase y en paseos a ambientes naturales. Los estudiantes descubren cómo sus vidas se conectan con los hábitos locales y los ecosistemas. Con actividades creativas, los estudiantes aprenden sobre la ecología de la línea divisoria de las aguas locales, empezando en sus salones de clase después en el patio de la escuela y entonces en paseos a riachuelos cercanos, al pantano "Arrowhead," y finalmente al Océano Pacífico. En cada área, los estudiantes aprenden sobre y ayudan a restaurar hábitos y fauna locales. Las familias son invitadas a los paseos al océano, para muchos esta es una experiencia nueva.

Nuestras Metas

• Proveer programas ambientales educacionales grandemente necesitados en la comunidad del este de Oakland
• Inspirar cuidado ambiental entre de la comunidad, conectando a gente con su ambiente local
• Involucrar a residentes del este de Oakland a proteger fauna y hábitos locales
• Mejorar el logro de los estudiantes en ciencia, matemáticas, e instrucción por la educación ambiental "basada en lugar"

State Coastal Conservancy Supports Eco-Oakland

The State Coastal Conservancy works with local governments, landowners, and non-profits to protect and restore California 's magnificent coastlines. Over the next three years, GGA's Eco-Oakland Program will receive $90,000 from the agency's San Francisco Bay Conservancy Program in support of restoration efforts at Lion Creek in the Oakland Hills and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline, and for environmental education for underserved youth in East Oakland. GGA thanks the conservancy for their generous support!