Website: www.presidio.gov/teachers/programs/envirolearning.htm

Field programs contact: Damien Raffa
Nursery programs contact: Ely Huerta-Ortiz

Grade Levels Served: 3rd - 12th

Cost: Free

Subject Alignment: Life Sciences

Sign-Up Info: By application for San Francisco public schools only, specifically targeting schools in the Southeast quadrant of the city (STAR Initiative and PI schools have priority)

Brief Description:

Presidio Park Stewards care for a wide variety of habitats and other landscapes in this prominent national park site in San Francisco. Service-based programs invite students to examine the relationship between the natural and urban worlds and contribute to San Francisco’s living natural history through habitat restoration, nursery work and other hands-on open space projects such as forestry and trails. Through participation in authentic service learning projects in a local national park, students and emerge with a deeper sense of place and the power to shape their park’s future in positive ways.

Program Elements:

• Available: Class Presentation
• Not Available: Assembly
• Not Available: Curriculum
• Not Available: Grants
• Not Available: Museum
• Not Available: Field Trip
• Not Available: Lending Library
• Available: Multimedia Materials
• Available: Teacher Kits
• Not Available: Outdoor Activities
• Not Available: Professional/Personal Development
• Available: Service Learning