Splash Kids In Action

Phoebe Hearst 5th Graders, 2006-2007

emily — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:03:03 +0000

In 2006-07, the fifth grade class of Ms. Sylvia Rodriguez used the Splash curriculum to study vernal pools in their watershed.

They helped to educate others by paying part of the cost of printing a new brochure about the Mather Field vernal pools.

Derek Chinn gives back to Splash

emily — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:01:22 +0000

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In 2005, 17-year-old Derek Chinn was having a hard time choosing a project to earn his Eagle Scout rank. Finally, his mother asked him, “What do you really care about?” Derek responded, “I care about vernal pools.”

Crocker Riverside 5th Graders, 1999-2000

emily — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:56:03 +0000

When Mrs. Womack’s next class started fifth grade in 1999, they discovered that more damage had been done to the Mather Field vernal pools since the first two signs went up: three young men got their daddies’ trucks stuck up to their axles in mud.

Crocker Riverside 5th Graders, 1998-99

emily — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:53:46 +0000

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Mrs. Womack’s next class of fifth-graders picked up in 1998 where the previous class had left off. They studied the vernal pools and they too fell in love with the critters and flowers that call them home.

Crocker Riverside 5th Graders, 1997-1998

emily — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:51:33 +0000

In 1997, Suzanne Womack, a fifth-grade teacher at Crocker Riverside Elementary, asked her biologist friend, Eva Butler, for ideas for a project that her students could enter in the Disney Environmentality Challenge. With Mather Field as an educational resource and a living laboratory, Eva introduced the class to the life in vernal pools.