Clean Creek Campus Highlights 2009-2010

This fall 12 schools and over 1,000 students participated in Clean Creek Campus!

Participating Schools:

• Odyssey School
• Ojeda Middle School
• Small Middle School
• Gullet Elementary School
• Texas School for the Deaf
• Brooke Elementary School
• Southwest Key
• Hillcrest Elementary School
• Langford Elementary School
• UT Elementary School
• Brentwood Elementary School
• Forest Trails Elementary School

Ojeda Middle School

The entire 6th grade - over 300 students- at Ojeda Middle School set out to build a 3-bin compost system to provide a natural fertilizer for their 6 new garden beds. In the process they learned about soil structures, the importance of green gardening and identified organisms living in healthy compost.

Hillcrest Elementary School

You can't beat the outdoors especially when you get to collect aquatic bugs, hike along a local creek, and search for signs of a clean watershed. 5th graders at Hillcrest Elementary studied watersheds and aquifer structures to learn about the impact of litter and pollution on creeks. To complete their study the 85 5th graders set out to clean Onion Creek that runs next to their school.

Langford Elementary School

The importance of quality soil, compost, and green gardening studies in the classroom were put into action at Langford Elementary School. Mr. Chavez's 4th grade class used their muscles to move 3 yards of soil, and construction skills to build 2 raised native garden beds. Students are eager to watch their plants grow and observe the wildlife that their garden will attract.

• “please keep doing what you're doing!”
• “Very well organized, effective, excellent hands on activities.”
• “From day 1- efficient staff good with kids, the program is very well planned.”
• “Keep it up! Thanks for serving our community.”