What Teachers Receive

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 will be required to sign a Materials Loan Agreement and a Teacher Expectations Agreement, but you may keep the materials at no cost for as long as you continue to teach the curriculum.

  • Teacher's Manual - Includes 13 lessons, complete with color overheads
  • Critter Catalog - Laminated, color fact sheets about vernal pool animals
  • Flower Facts - Laminated, color fact sheets about vernal pool plants
  • The Mysteries of Vernal Pools - 10-minute DVD introduction to vernal pools
  • Fairy shrimp kit - Easy-to-use kit for growing fairy shrimp in your classroom
Sacramento Splash - Helping children understand and value their natural world picture
VICTORY - Splash Lives!

Thanks to an outpouring of community support, the Board of the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (SRCSD) voted UNANIMOUSLY to continue funding the Splash program.

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Sacramento Splash - Helping children understand and value their natural world picture
Best field trip I've found

Most field trips are either fun or educational. Rarely do you find a field trip where it is both. This is truly the best field trip I’ve found since teaching 5th grade for the past 8 years.

– DeAnn Edwards, 5th grade teacher, Barbara Comstock Morse Elementary