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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
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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 • THS students work on fish habitat projectBy Denise PorterAgriculture CorrespondentTILLAMOOK - 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 PartnershipsFor 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:
