Making Pavers

Piper's Creek: streets to Sound

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As part of their interpretive education project, students from pacific crest elementary created a pocket park in the greenwood neighborhood.

This park was designed to raise the communitys awareness about the watershed issues facing pipers creek.

students designed pavers depicting spawing salmon that now adorn the park in seattle as well as mark an urban trail that follows pipers creek from greenwood to carkeek park and out to puget sound.

Piper's Creek Team

Project Inception/Lead: Caitlin Evans

Participating School: Pacific Crest Montessori, Seattle

Design Curriculum and Teaching: Heidi Breeze-Harris

Funding: numerous local government agencies

Students at pacific crest montesorri school creating concrete pavers for the park and urban trail.

Fish pavers in process. The final pavers were made with concrete, glass waste and brass cut as fish. The final fish pavers were installed in the pipers creek pocket park. (See below.)

A Pacific Crest School student sits proudly with the paver she designed and made.

The Piper's Creek pocket park holds a student-designed interpretive sign, a student and student-made fish spawning pavers.