Imagine over 60 grade 1 students paired with over 60 grade 8 students! Last year we participated in the NPCA's Yellow Fish Road program to help inform our community about types of things that should be kept out of storm drains in order to help protect our area watershed.
Here's a great explanation of the program from Trout Unlimited Canada:
TUC’s Yellow Fish Road™ program targets and engages Canada’s youth to protect Canada’s water, not only for today but for the future as well. Students learn about the impact pollution has on their community and what steps they can take to protect their local water.
Yellow Fish Road™ volunteers paint yellow fish symbols with the words ‘Rain Only’ adjacent to storm drains and distribute fish-shaped brochures to nearby households reminding people that anything that enters the local storm drain system, good or bad, ends up in their water.
It was a great morning for students. They really felt like they made a difference! We hope to participate in this program again this spring with our Water Warriors! Be sure to check out our video from last year!
Super great to see how engaged your team is with water - thank you for sharing with us what you did last year. And we are following your blog to read the next posts and learn with you!
ReplyDeleteOr plan is to do the Yellow Fish Road program again this year, as it is such a visual message for our community about water. Through networking at the NPCA Awards Ceremony, we hope to help others offer this program to their communities.
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