1.Instruction in arts,science,technology,engineering,and mathematics that connects nature experiences, or environmental stewardship: this is done by connecting outdoor experiences to the sciences used by being outdoors an assessing environment., ie. weather, tide charts, being on boats, using technology in these areas, citizen science, beach clean ups, animal wildlife rescue, visiting aquarium Foster stewardship of the environment using curriculum pursuant to Public Resources Code, Division 34, Part 4: Statewide Environmental Education (Sections 71300-71305). or 3. Curriculum that is aligned to the content standards for California public schools adopted by the State Board of Education, including, but not limited to, the Next Generation Science standards, or the California History-Social Science Standards. ie. connecting outdoor experiences to the sciences used by being outdoors an assessing environment., ie. weather, tide charts, being on boats, using technology in these areas, citizen science, beach clean ups, animal wildlife rescue, visiting aquarium.

Coordinate instructional resources and strategies for providing active pupil participation with onsite conservation efforts.ie, teaching participants how to be steward of the beach and ocean while they are at the beach to take ownership of the outdoor space.

Promote service-learning opportunities between schools and local communities. o Assess the impact to participating pupils of the unified education strategy on pupil achievement and resource conservation, Service Learning with Cal State Monterey Bay mentoring youth leaders in program.

Healthy lifestyles and sound nutritional habits. Examples of EDUCATIONAL health lessons include how food processing affects climate change or environmental health, minimizing packaging waste, nutrition, ie. connecting outdoor experiences, doing beach clean ups, education about waste that is found, education on healthy diet protecting skin from sunburn, how to pack personal lunches for trips using less waste. Lessons all done on the beach.

Community outreach methods and civic engagement related to ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, ie, community earth day celebration, tabling opportunities in the community with youth leaders doing outreach. Career pathway mentoring related to natural resource agencies, environmental protection agencies, park operations, and therapeutic recreation. ie. learned through training youth in volunteer positions and through their volunteer time.

Instruction in arts, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that connects nature experiences, or environmental stewardship: this is done by connecting outdoor experiences to the sciences used by being outdoors an assessing environment., ie. weather, tide charts, being on boats, using technology in these areas, citizen science, beach clean ups, animal wildlife rescue, visiting aquarium 2. Foster stewardship of the environment using curriculum pursuant to PublicResources Code, Division 34, Part 4: Statewide Environmental Education (Sections 71300-71305). or 3. Curriculum that is aligned to the content standards for California public schools adopted by the State Board of Education, including, but not limited to, the Next Generation Science standards, or the California History-Social Science Standards. ie. connecting outdoor experiences to the sciences used by being outdoors an assessing environment., ie. weather, tide charts, being on boats, using technology in these areas, citizen science, beach clean ups, animal wildlife rescue, visiting aquarium o Coordinate instructional resources and strategies for providing active pupil participation with onsite conservation efforts, teaching participants how to be steward of the beach and ocean while they are at the beach to take ownership of the outdoor space. Promote service-learning opportunities between schools and local communities. Assess the impact to participating pupils of the unified education strategy on pupil achievement and resource conservation, Service Learning with Cal State Monterey Bay mentoring youth leaders in program. Healthy lifestyles and sound nutritional habits. Examples of EDUCATIONAL health lessons include how food processing affects climate change or environmental health, minimizing packaging waste, nutrition, ie. connecting outdoor experiences, doing beach clean ups, education about waste that is found, education on healthy diet protecting skin from sunburn, how to pack personal lunches for trips using less waste. Lessons all done on the beach. Community outreach methods and civic engagement related to ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, ie, community earth day celebration, tabling opportunities in the community with youth leaders doing outreach. Career pathway mentoring related to natural resource agencies, environmental protection agencies, park operations, and therapeutic recreation. ie. learned through training youth in volunteer positions and through their volunteer time.

Our partnerships include: Castroville Recreation and Park District, North Monterey County Slough Crew, Elkhorn Slough Foundation, Monterey County Free Libraries, North County Unified School District, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cal State Monterey Bay Service Learning Department, Castroville Community Services District, Hojos del Sol, Latinos Outdoors Accomplishments include partnering to create the first ever Earth Day Celebration/Community, Cal State Students mentoring youth in programs, Elkhorn Slough Foundation introducing us to the North Monterey County Slough Crew, a group of high school students who are leaders in their community for their environment creating solutions for their community and have become a weekly group we meet with and who participate in both Activities in the Community and Nature Area trips. Elkhorn Slough Foundation also connected us with Latino Outdoors. We coordinated family beach days with them!

Partnerships expanded as we began to work in the community. More partners wanted to leverage their influence and where and how they could contribute resources to make even better programs and activities for the community. We are doing programs quicker than we thought we would. Once a connection happened in the community we followed their lead. We didn't anticipate to have weekly meet ups at Castroville Rec but the kids like us coming to bring ocean inspired ocean messages and activities as well as it has been a good time to build rapport with families to be on site regularly. It helps build consistency with getting the families to regularly attend in nature activities. We went to more community events than we anticipated to do tabling and again to build rapport and to keep showing our representation and connection to community. This has been valuable and we didn't put this time into the budget for our staff to be on site so often but it hasn't prevented us from showing up. We anticipate to end our program earlier than planned due to more time put into the first 15 months of the grant.

Our partnerships include: Castroville Recreation and Park District, North Monterey County Slough Crew, Elkhorn Slough Foundation, Monterey County Free Libraries, North County Unified School District, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cal State Monterey Bay Service Learning Department, Castroville Community Services District, Hijos del Sol, Latinos Outdoors Accomplishments include partnering to create the first ever Earth Day Celebration/Community, Cal State Students mentoring youth in programs, Elkhorn Slough Foundation introducing us to the North Monterey County Slough Crew, a group of high school students who are leaders in their community for their environment creating solutions for their community and have become a weekly group we meet with and who participate in both Activities in the Community and Nature Area trips. Elkhorn Slough Foundation also connected us with Latino Outdoors. We coordinated family beach days with them! Partnerships expanded as we began to work in the community. More partners wanted to leverage their influence and where and how they could contribute resources to make even better programs and activities for the community. We are doing programs quicker than we thought we would. Once a connection happened in the community we followed their lead. We didn't anticipate to have weekly meet ups at North County Rec or with the Slough Crew but the kids liked us coming to bring ocean inspired ocean messages and activities as well as it has been a good time to build rapport with families to be on site regularly. It helps build consistency with getting the families to regularly attend in nature activities. We went to more community events than we anticipated to do tabling and again to build rapport and to keep showing our representation and connection to community. This has been valuable and we didn't put this time into the Activities in Community or in budget for our staff to be on site so often but it hasn't prevented us from showing up. We anticipate to end our program earlier than planned due to more time put into the first 15 months of the grant. We were also able to volunteer at community events with participants outside of Castroville. Participants volunteered at The Big Sur Marathon and The Blues Festival with Blue Strike recycling program. They all received volunteer hours for their school. They are scheduled to do volunteering again for 2024. We also did a camping trip last weekend with the Slough Crew at the campground through the State Parks Program. In total we did more activities with the community, inside the community and outside of the community that we didn’t anticipate as part of the grant project because of the ideas from the community and partnerships that we were able to leverage to bring more activities in.

We needed to be flexible with other agency schedules when we wanted to partner, change our expectations. For free programs some people with RSVP and not show up, in the meantime we provided staff to cover, or the other way around, some people show up and didn't rsvp or register. Midway through we followed up with people to ask if they wanted more or less of particular programs and made adjustments. Just because we said 4 kayak trips didn't mean we had to do them. Kids preferred beach days so we did more of those.

Provide tips and lessons-learned including successful methods used, unforeseen challenges, and recommended solutions: We needed to be flexible with other agency schedules when we wanted to partner, change 4 6. Office of Grants and Local Services our expectations. For free programs some people with RSVP and not show up, in the meantime we provided staff to cover, or the other way around, some people show up and didn't rsvp or register. Midway through we followed up with people to ask if they wanted more or less of particular programs and made adjustments. Just because we said 4 kayak trips or 4 whale watching didn't mean we had to do them. Kids preferred beach days so we did more of those. We were not able to do the Storm Drain Activity due to time constraints with getting permission from City Works. We hope to do this activity over the summer. We didn’t think it would take so long to get permission.