Mercer Slough
Environmental Education Center

Taylor Creek Internship

• Students from Cleveland, Southlake, Rainier Beach and Renton High Schools currently participate in the internship program.
• Interns participate in a water quality monitoring program on Taylor Creek, including physical, chemical and biological testing.
• Interns develop and present lessons on the following topics: watersheds, water cycles, salmon lifecycle, non-point source pollution, and more.
• Interns work with fourth and fifth grade students in classes at Dearborn Park, Lakeridge and Van Asselt Elementary School.
• Interns lead elementary school students during field trips to Taylor Creek, where many of the elementary school students have their first experience at a stream or in the woods.
• Interns and elementary school students participate in work parties with Friends of Deadhorse Canyon on the 3rd Saturday of the month.
• Interns and elementary school students created a Metro Bus Shelter mural depicting animal and plant life of Taylor Creek. The bus shelter is installed at the corner of Rainier Ave. South and Henderson Street, just a few blocks from Rainier Beach High School.
• In 2003, interns and their Mercer Slough mentors created the guidebook, Making Waves: Watershed Education in Your Community, A Handbook for Teens.
• The interns at Taylor Creek hosted, along with the Friends of Deadhorse Canyon, an Earth Day celebration at Lakeridge Park on the 3rd Saturday in April.
• Every summer, the Lake Washington Watershed interns engaged the general public at Pacific Science Center in informal, hands-on, interactive demonstrations about their local watershed with Discovery Carts.

This program is supported by the generosity of
the →Seward Park Environmental & Audubon Center
and the →Puget Soundkeeper Alliance

Programming at the Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center is provided by
the Russell Family Foundation, Anonymous and JiJi Foundation.