Amigos is forging innovative partnerships between public agencies and school districts to explore the educational potential of public spaces. We collaborate with principals, teachers, students, and parents to incorporate their suggestions in the design of public areas. These efforts have yielded designs for several outdoor educational areas that will be built in parks or on school grounds. Outdoor educational areas will allow schools and communities to interpret the native landscape designed to represent local ecosystems in a living educational display.
Amigos is also developing an outdoor educational program that will bring
teachers and children into local parks and use them as educational environments
to teach to California Department of Education standards. Schools can
use this program to teach students about water conservation, native drought-tolerant
habitats, water quality, and local history using a vivid live model of
native and water conserving gardens. The pilot project will be launched at
Rio Vista Park in the City of El Monte.
