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.

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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.

Learn more about bacteria...
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Did you know there are tigers in vernal pools?

This is an Aquatic Beetle larva, more commonly known as a "Water Tiger." It's pincers are like hypodermic needles and it uses them to suck the fluid out of its prey. Yummy!

Learn more about Water Tigers!