Hurricane Ridge
All 7th grade students at Stevens Middle School do a field experience at Hurricane Ridge.
Purpose / Guiding Principles for Field Experience:
Enrich kids’ foundational knowledge of science so they can integrate their 7th grade science experience into their future science learning.
Relate science and school to real life.
Make efforts to improve 7th grade science curriculum by adding relevant local connections to the existing hands-on inquiry science curriculum.
Integrate social studies, through service learning and civic engagement components, and Native American education, through sovereignty curriculum, into the 7th grade student experience at Stevens.
Essential Question: How is changing snowpack, resulting from climate change, going to affect park ecosystems and surrounding communities?
Learning Stations:
1. Ranger walk (w/ONP Ranger) - Objective: observe how Hurricane Ridge changes throughout the year
2. Snow science (w/SMS teacher Dan Lieberman) - Objective: collect data to monitor human impact on the environment [snow water equivalent data]
3. Avalanche pit (w/ONP Ranger) - Objective: interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future events
4. Native stories (w/PASD and/or LEKT staff) - Objective: learn cultural and historical context and connect changes to landforms with human history on the Olympic Peninsula
5. Glacier talk (w/ONP Ranger) - Objective: examine evidence of climate change in ONP and discuss factors that led to it
6. Climate change (w/Seaview teacher Katie Sirguy) - Objective: examine how humans have impacted the local environment in direct and indirect ways
Context and Planning:
Photo Album: Hurricane Ridge 2018