What REALMS is about

What is REALMS

REALMS is a Hands On Learning Charter School in Central Oregon. We are very different from most schools because we normally do not believe in learning by textbooks and homework (though we do have some). Our purpose is to foster scholarship, strengthen community, and inspire stewardship through active learning.

Here we have a mission, a mission to challenge each other to investigate, understand, and become stewards of the human and natural world around us.

Our Mission

Our Mission

Our mission is to help the process of restoration for Tumalo Creek. Meaning what we did to help restore Tumalo after the Bridge Creek fire. Since the fire was so devastating loggers came and took all of the trees away including the trees that were in the banks. After that there was nothing left. People finally realized that what we are doing to the creek is wrong so they started to fix it. They thought that it would be nice for the schools to get involved and that’s where we come in.

The 8th grade classes started to get really involved. We replanted trees and most of the riparian vegetation along the side of the creek along with a couple other schools.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Data Collection Week 3


Tumalo Week 3 Data Collection

While collecting data on the third week we were entrusted with responsibility to collect reliable and accurate data. The tools that we used are called vernier probes. Vernier probes are a small computer like hand held object that has certain attatchments for different water quality factors.  Some of the things we calculated are the water temperature, air temperature, the pH balance, turbidity, and conductivity. I personally like how we were trusted to use really expensive tools, it brought about the feeling of responsibility and maturity to me which really made my day.I think that the main purpose for collecting this data is so we could compare this data with the past classes and the future classes can to. After a rough fire that destroyed the tumalo habitat central oregon joined hand in hand to restore this habitat to all that it could be.The main challenge we had was getting the most acurate reading that we could. The weather was cold and it was hard to stand so close to other people on a small bank of rocks. However we pulled through and collected the most accurate readings we could forgetting our lives back home, focused on the science.




Conner and Trevor waiting for the water quality results.
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