{"id":2680,"date":"2013-10-31T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2013-10-31T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:01:11","slug":"tsunami-debris-curriculum-teaches-marine-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/2013\/10\/31\/tsunami-debris-curriculum-teaches-marine-invaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami debris curriculum teaches about marine invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/files\/2013\/10\/tsunami-dock-600px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2681\" style=\"margin: 5px\" title=\"Workers clean live species from Japanese dock washed up on Agate Beach, 2012\" alt=\"Workers clean live species from Japanese dock washed up on Agate Beach, 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/files\/2013\/10\/tsunami-dock-600px-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/181\/files\/2013\/10\/tsunami-dock-600px-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/181\/files\/2013\/10\/tsunami-dock-600px-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/181\/files\/2013\/10\/tsunami-dock-600px.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A new curriculum from Oregon Sea Grant uses lessons from the 2011 Japanese tsunami &#8211; and subsequent arrival of large docks and other artifacts of the disaster on US shores &#8211; to teach about science, engineering &#8211; and the risks posed by foreign species hitching a ride on floating debris.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Sea Grant&#8217;s Watershed and Invasive Species Education (WISE) program, the curriculum was tested at several workshops this year where teachers had a chance to experience activities focused on getting students and teachers excited about STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) learning. Along with teaching about marine invaders, the activities looked at the power of tsunami waves, and how engineering can make shorefront communities more resilient to such disasters.<\/p>\n<p>The entire curriculum is available, free, from Oregon Sea Grant&#8217;s Website.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wise\/2013\/10\/28\/teaching-tsunamis-and-invasive-species\/\">Read about the new curriculum on the WISE blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/invasive-species\/toolkit\/tsunami-stem-curriculum\">Download the curriculum components<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/invasive-species\/\">Learn about Oregon Sea Grant&#8217;s other work on aquatic invasive species<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new curriculum from Oregon Sea Grant uses lessons from the 2011 Japanese tsunami &#8211; and subsequent arrival of large docks and other artifacts of the disaster on US shores &#8211; to teach about science, engineering &#8211; and the risks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/2013\/10\/31\/tsunami-debris-curriculum-teaches-marine-invaders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1223969,509,1223983,6515,1239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invasive-species","category-k-12-teachers","category-marine-education","category-ocean-literacy","category-tsunami-coastal-hazards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p64BdL-He","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}