Agriculture in Oregon, Ecoregion Food Chains and Vocabulary FUN!
/The Sea Lions received a special visit two weeks ago from Casey Blake, Washington County Programs Coordinator for Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation. Casey led the Sea Lions on an amazing journey through Oregon, highlighting the variety of goods our state grows and produces for people locally and around the world. The Sea Lions participated in a super fun Oregon Agriculture Scavenger Hunt that highlighted the crops we currently grow as well as some of the original crops harvested by First Peoples. Mr. Casey finished his presentation with a group discussion about climate change, sharing new and innovative farming practices happening around our state and inviting students to share their own sustainable farming ideas. It was a lively and interesting lesson and tied in beautifully with the next steps in our Ecoregions presentations happening in just a couple of weeks!
The detailed work on our Ecoregions posters is coming along beautifully as students deepen their research on the ecosystem of their region of Oregon, and highlight a specific strategy species within their region. These species are listed as one of Oregon’s species of greatest conservation need and are defined as having small or declining populations, are at-risk, and/or are of management concern. The Sea Lions created a food chain for their species, and included specific threats currently impacting the survival of their species.
The Sea Lions are having heaps of fun learning lots of new vocabulary words. This week, we’ve played Spin-The-Vocab-Word as well as Vocabulary Headbands, working in teams and partners to give each other clues about our word, using synonyms, antonyms, acting, rhyme, using the word in a “fill-in-the-blank” sentence, and more. Words are FUN!
