News Room
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In the News
Field Science Also WASL Prep
KUOW
May 31, 2007
KUOW's Sara Lerner interviews Homewaters Project's Linda Versage and Seattle Public School's Katheine Show to learn how Homewaters' Ecosystems Field Science Investigation prepares Bailey Gatzert Elementary students for the WASL as they explore their school grounds to answer the question, " Do more ground invertebrates live in the grass or in a sheltered location??" Read or listen to it here.
Students take on bugs, broom during project
Shoreline Enterprise
May 25, 2007
With Homewaters Project's help, Shorewood High School students map invasive plant species in Shoreview Park in order to present their findings to Sustainable Shoreline. Read on here.
What's in the Hatch?
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Getaways
June 1, 2006
Reporter Gordy Holt joined Homewaters Project for our spring Thornton Creek Long Walk and wrote it up for the popular weekly weekend section "Getaways." This entertaining and thorough article does a great job of showing what this unique urban hike through Seattle's largest watershed is all about. Read the online version here.
Can Technology Connect Us to Place?
Clearing Magazine
Spring 2006
Following up on our article in the previous addition of Clearing Magazine, this article focuses on our Water and Community GIS program for middle schools as a case study on how appropriate technology can actually connect students to the world around them in a way that traditional environmental education may not be able to. Read on here.
Watershed Garden Flowers at Kimball Elementary
Beacon Hill News & South District Journal
March 8, 2006
South Seattle's neighborhood weekly stopped by Kimball Elementary to see our Watershed Gardens program in action. This great article really covers the extent of this year-long water conservation unit. Read about it here.
How Livable is Your Neighborhood?
Clearing Magazine
Winter 2005-06, Issue #119
National environmental education magazine, Clearing, featured Homewaters' Neighborhood Green Mapping program in their January 2006 issue. Read the article here.
Letter to the Editor
Orion Magazine
January/February 2006
In response to an article on how computers are disconnecting students from their local communities, Homewaters submitted a Letter to the Editor about how our Community Mapping programs, which use GIS computer mapping software, actually use this technology to increase this connection. The author agreed. Read our letter yourself.
Seattle's Best Urban Hike!
Seattle Weekly
August 3-9, 2005
Noted local author, David Williams picked our Thornton Creek Long Walks as Seattle's Best Urban Walk.
Read the article in the Seattle Weekly.
Neighborhood Green Mapping
National Public Radio, KPLU 88.5 fm
June 6,2005
The Neighborhood Green Mapping "Day of Sharing" between Cleveland and Nathan Hale High Schools at Seattle City Hall was covered on a local NPR station.
Listen to the story or read the transcript.
South District Journal
June 15, 2005
Read a more comprehensive story on the City Hall event.
Water and Community GIS Program
North Seattle Herald-Outlook
January 5, 2005
A great article about our innovative community mapping and investigation program, which uses real world data and technology to connect students to their own neighborhoods. Read the article and see what Water and Community is all about.
Land and Water - Investigating the Thornton Creek Watershed
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
December 16, 2003
Learn more about one of our most successful programs, Land and Water, in a great article by PI reporter Gregory Roberts. Read all about it here!
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