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, September 25, 2012

Reflection Week 2


Today after collecting carbon data at Tumalo, we were given math related quotes to interpret. The over all theme of the day was math. Today's writing invitation was different from other reflections because instead of reflecting on the day, we had to make sense of a quote that had something to do with math being everywhere. We had to connect the quotes to the real world and Tumalo Creek. The writing invitation mentioned was, what is the authors message or point? How does the quote relate to your experience with Tumalo Math day? Quotes: “Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.” "Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature." "Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal." "The way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics."

Cassidy interpreting one of the many quotes.




My favorite lines from Sienna's interpretation:

"Because of this it would be impossible to put a circumference on all of nature." 

“Nature is always shrinking, expanding and a factor of evolution , just like how Tumalo Creek was severely damaged, then under took restoration, which leads to us today"
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“Nature is a sphere because everything in nature is always affecting its self and when I think about that I think a sphere does represent nature.”


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