Tillamook School District Natural Resource Education

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Tillamook School DistrictNatural Resource
Education
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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Career Related Learning
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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

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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.

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Senior Service Learning Program

• Graduation requirement of Tillamook High School
  30 hours of service requirements of a Senior
  Project
• 200 Seniors
• Examples of Projects

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Forestry Art Projects
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Pacific Oyster Co.
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Using GPS Units
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Questions?