Watershed Field Trip to Lake Merritt
Enhance your classroom environmental science curriculum with hands-on life science activities at beautiful Lake Merritt. Teachers can explore our Lake Merritt Watershed lesson in their own classroom followed with a field trip down to Lake Merritt Institute for water quality testing curriculum and stewardship lake cleanup. Students will learn how to assess the health of the lake by measuring dissolved oxygen, water temperature, and salinity. They discuss their findings and explored how urban pollution impacts these indicators.
For 2025-2026 School year, we’re able to schedule classrooms Tuesdays through Saturdays between 10-3pm. We suggest planning for 2-3 hours with us at Lake Merritt for a successful field day.
Contact us at Lake Merritt Institute to schedule a field trip info@lakemerrittinstitute.org.
Watershed Conservation Presentations
The Institute provides power point educational presentations to schools, business organizations and community associations. Groups of twelve or less can be accommodated in our office; larger groups can be scheduled if the Boating Center classroom is available or we may come to your location. Typically about 45 minutes in length, these events can be combined with a clean-up event. Age-related videos are shown for younger age students.
Contact us to schedule a presentation info@lakemerrittinstitute.org
