Elementary Program: Investigating Vernal Pools

Our 4th & 5th grade program, Life in Our Watershed: Investigating Vernal Pools, integrates a 13-lesson, standards-based science curriculum with a field trip to the vernal pools at Mather Field. The curriculum prepares the students for their field trip by teaching them all about vernal pools and the plants and animals that live in them.

Classroom preparation is the key difference between Splash field trips and traditional field trips because the students arrive already knowing a lot about the vernal pools. This knowledge empowers the students and results in an exciting, interactive field trip in which information is shared among students, guides, and teachers.

Sacramento Splash - Helping children understand and value their natural world picture
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Makes science relevant for students

Thank you once again for an awesome program. I am so pleased that we have the opportunity to participate in a program that makes science relevant for our students and also manages to address so many of the California State Science Standards. The students loved it.

– Gwen Guest, 5th grade teacher, Carl Sundahl Elementary