Video: The Living Watershed

  • Video: The Living Watershed

Video: The Living Watershed

This DVD breathes life into the Splash Secondary Curriculum, Life in Our Watershed: Investigating Streams and Water Quality, by showing students how the organisms found in a typical local stream make a living. It presents a visual exploration of one of the many small foothill streams that fan out across into the Sacramento region.

Sacramento Splash - Helping children understand and value their natural world picture
Bacteria made life possible on Earth

For 2 billion years, bacteria were the only creatures on Earth. Long before the dinosaurs, a special type of bacteria slowly increased the level of oxygen in the Earth's air to 20 percent. Without this oxygen other plants and animals could not have evolved, including us.

Stay close to small things

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

- Rainer Maria Rilka