Every year from February through April, the Splash Education Center at Mather Field welcomes more than 70 classes of 4th and 5th graders on their vernal pool field trips. These field trips give students the chance to get up-close-and-personal with the animals and plants they've been studying in the Splash curriculum, Life in Our Watershed: Investigating Vernal Pools.
Splash would love the opportunity to teach your students about the streams that flow through the areas where they live and go to school. Check out the links below for more information about our streams program for 6th - 12th grade classes.
Splash would love the opportunity to teach your students hands-on science and develop their respect for the natural world around them. Check out the links below for more information about our vernal pools program for 4th and 5th grade classes.
Sacramento Splash offers two standards-based, environmental science programs for teachers of grades 4-12. We also offer classroom presentations for grades 3-6. For more information about Splash's school programs, please click on the links below.
The outdoor portion of the field trip is where all of the lessons and activities in the elementary curriculum are brought together for the students. It’s like multiple pieces of an ecological puzzle being put together by the students to create a big picture of what they’ve been studying.
When students enter the Splash Education Center, they enter a world of fun, hands-on science investigation that builds on the knowledge they’ve acquired in the classroom through the curriculum materials and activities. After a brief introduction, the students split into three groups. Each group follows its guide through the three learning stations in the Center.
To be eligible to participate in the Splash Secondary Program you must teach 6th - 12th grade science at a school in Sacramento County or the City of West Sacramento.
To be eligible to participate in the Splash elementary program you must teach 4th or 5th grade at a school in Sacramento County or the City of West Sacramento.
Once you are accepted into the program, you will receive a full set of curriculum materials, which includes all of the items listed below. You may keep the materials at no cost for as long as you continue to teach the curriculum.
To use the Splash Curriculum teachers must agree to devote several class periods to the Splash lessons. A mandatory three-hour workshop provides all the guidance needed to use the logical, cohesive, and teacher-friendly curriculum.
