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

Opening Circle week#3


Realms students paying attention to a reading.


Today we got into a standing circle in a whole new place. We were surrounded by many big trees. Our main concentration was to see how many different human impacts we could find. Like pipes sitting on the side of the road and constriction happening right in front of our eyes. Mr. Beck read a story written by Martha Campbell. Here’s a quote from the reading. "Other dangers lie not in the stream itself, but in the pipeline that runs from the intake to town.” Now we were ready to start focusing on the social science.
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