Information for Prospective Splash Teachers

  • Information for Prospective Splash Teachers
  • Program Eligibility
  • Expectations of Teachers
  • Standards Alignment
  • What Teachers Receive
  • Sacramento Splash - Helping children understand and value their natural world picture

Information for Prospective Splash Teachers

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.

Program Eligibility

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.

Sign Up for the Secondary Program

Splash invites all 6th - 12th grade science teachers in Sacramento County and the City of West Sacramento to submit an application for a place in the Splash Secondary Program. The program includes a mandatory four-hour teacher training and a loaned set of curriculum materials.

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 may keep the materials at no cost for as long as you continue to teach the curriculum.

Expectations of Teachers

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.

 

Standards Alignment

The PDF document above provides detailed information about how the Splash Secondary Curriculum aligns to the 9th - 12th grade science standards established by the California State Board of Education

Exciting, hands-on, inquiry investigation

The Splash Secondary Curriculum is exciting and fun for the environmentally conscious students.  I had a blast with my students studying the macroinvertebrates, watching the DVD, and hunting throught the BMI Guide to take notes on what we had found and how it related to water quality.   I look forward to more exciting, hands-on, inquiry investigation next year with my Biology students.

- Jennifer McAllister, Biology teacher, River City High School

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