Since returning from Winter Break, students have had many opportunities for active exploration through trips to Otay Valley Regional Park and the SDG&E Energy Innovation Center.
Scientists from the City of San Diego’s Storm Water Division joined students at Otay Valley Regional Park to share the importance of clean water and the risks associated with pollutants that can end up in our urban streams and eventually flow to the bay and ocean. The scientists taught students how to check for quality and safety. They also shared behaviors students can incorporate into their daily lives to keep waterways clean.
Students then spent a morning at the SDG&E Energy Innovation Center where they built solar circuits, explored the energy use of common appliances, learned the relationship between energy use as it relates to transportation and production of goods, and calculated their water and energy footprint by dissecting energy and water use of a product.
The community is looking forward to learning from these Marston 8th graders when they present their pollution action plans to industry experts at their exhibition in April.
Credit to City of San Diego for social media post on the event and for photographs taken by Ombretta DiDio at Otay Valley Regional Park.
