Keep Austin Beautiful is offering another amazing year of engaging, TEKS-aligned environmental science education programming FREE of charge. Starting this fall, we will be offering our programs as virtual live presentations with an adaptable and flexible structure to meet your curricular needs and integrate with your online platforms.
If you are interested in incorporating our programs into your plans for this school year, please be sure to register now. We understand it may be difficult to make a firm commitment, however, please provide your best estimate and we can finalize scheduling at a later date. We will be in contact throughout the semester to adjust as needed. Let us know if you have any questions!
Clean Creek Campus
Keep Austin Beautiful leads engaging science-based activities for 3rd-8th graders to connect in-school learning to local environmental issues and solutions, with a focus on protecting water quality. Participating schools will receive two virtual “in-class” presentations, followed by a virtual field trip and instruction for local service project opportunities. The virtual field activities will emphasize creek restoration and clean water quality, including activities such as litter cleanup, seedball making, macroinvertebrate investigation, native vs invasive plant exploration, and scavenger hunt, depending on student and teacher interest.
All Clean Creek Campus programming is provided free of charge.
Generation Zero
Generation Zero Waste is a free youth education program, created in partnership with Austin Resource Recovery. The program engages K-12 students in TEKS-aligned educational and interactive activities which raise awareness about recycling, composting, and conservation while giving students simple solutions for reducing their waste. The curriculum is divided into grade levels – K-2nd, 3rd-5th, 6th-8th and 9th-12th – with a different focus for each.
- K-2nd: lessons focus on teaching students about sorting waste, emphasizing the differences between landfill trash, recycling, and composting
- 3rd-5th: lessons center around the composition of trash and recycling beyond the basics, integrating math and social studies concepts.
- 6th-12th: lessons explore the intricacies of our waste streams, to build a complex understanding of landfills and recycling systems, culminating with a student-led advocacy project to address waste issues locally
All Generation Zero programming is provided free of charge.