Santa Monica Baykeeper

Intermediate students at UCLA lab School (ULS) have been hard at work researching the water quality and habitat of Stone Canyon Creek. Stone Canyon Creek runs through the elementary school’s campus providing a valuable hands on learning tool.

 

At the beginning of the semester, students were asked to come up with a question about the creek. Through observation and experimentation they discovered their own answers and presented them through a poster session held at the school before they left for summer vacation. Some of the questions they asked were: what type of wildlife live in and near the creek, what effects the flow of the stream, what happens when too many nutrients are in the water? With help from ULS teachers and Santa Monica Baykeeper’s Watershed Program team, the students were given the tools and strategies necessary to answer these questions.