Transcript Tillamook High School

Tillamook School District
Natural Resource Education
Our Place
• Rural Coastal Community serving 2,100
students (700 High School Students)
• Economy: Trees, Cheese, and Ocean
Breeze (Tourists)
• Land Value 1995 vs. 2007
• Largest Population of ELL students on the
Oregon Coast
• Community that cares about kids!
Challenges
• Balancing Comprehensive Education with
Limited Budget Dollars
• Providing training for staff that allows them
to educate the workforce of the future
• Aging Population / 2nd Homeowner
Community
Solutions?
• K-12 Natural Resource Education Program:
Using the Local Community as an extension of
the Classroom.
• Community Partnerships
• University Partnerships: George Fox University,
University of Oregon, Oregon State University
• Senior Service Learning Project
Natural Resource Education
Program
• Why Natural Resources? Where we live…
• Our Community has a great need to balance
and sustain our natural environment
• Provides applications for classroom content
standards into a real project
• Our Model is high school students
demonstrating what they have learned by
teaching elementary students
Local Voice of Community
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THS students work on fish habitat project
By Denise Porter
Agriculture Correspondent
TILLAMOOK - For many students, learning by doing can be more powerful that just
studying something out of a book.
And that learning can be even more effective when a student is actually doing
something "real" and making a difference.
That's the idea behind the Natural Resources, Watershed and Forestry classes at
Tillamook High School, where students are learning how to measure width, length,
water velocity and slope hands-on as they study about forestry and get some
physical education.
Career Related Learning
Career Related Partnerships
For Students Moving Into the Workforce
• Stimson Lumber Company: Funding of a
Natural Resource Coordinator (Service Learning
Specialist)
Employing/Paying for Associate Degrees for
Two-Four High School Students
• Hampton Industries: $52,000 for Teacher Staff
Development
• TCCA: Donation of 80 acres for Natural
Resource Studies.
• Oregon Dept. of Education: Service Learning
Service Learning Projects for
College Bound Students
• Clair Thomas: Work with Advanced Placement
Projects: GPS/GIS, Culvert Studies
• George Fox University Summer School Program
• Astronomy / Earth Science Program with
University of Oregon and George Fox University:
Working with elementary and middle school
students on high level research in the
community.
Senior Service Learning Program
• Graduation requirement of Tillamook High
School: 30 hours of service +
requirements of a Senior Project
• 200 Seniors
• Examples of Projects:
Forestry Art Projects
Pacific Oyster Co.
Using GPS Units
Questions?