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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 project

By Denise PorterAgriculture 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.

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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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