exchange of pedagogies: interpreting the “beauty and the

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Cape Blanco State Park, OregonCascadia EarthScopeEarthquake and Tsunami

Education Program (CEETEP)

Exchange of Pedagogies:Interpreting the “Beauty

and the Beast” Story of theOregon Coast

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Beverly Beach State Park, Oregon

Goal and ObjectivesCEETEP Training Workshop

Goal: To provide coastal educators with backgroundknowledge, strategies, and materials to engage students andvisitors on the science of, and preparedness for, earthquakesand tsunamis.

Objectives: Participants will be able to:1. Explain how the Oregon Coast Range formed.2. Discuss geological hazards of the Oregon Coast.3. Incorporate the region’s geological landscape and

geophysical monitoring into lesson plans andinterpretive programs that tell the story of the Coast’sformation and potential for earthquakes and tsunamis.

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“Storying it Up!”

Science (EarthScope, Cascadia)

Meanings (Geoscience, Hazards, Preparedness)

How can we collaborate to reachour audiences in our communities?

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Beverly Beach State Park, OregonAction Teams:2 Tasks

1. Develop and present 10-Minute InterpretiveProgram- Develop this afternoon- Present tomorrow afternoon

2. Develop product(s) foryour community thatserve your audiences inyour settings- Plan tomorrow afternoon- Develop Now - February- Present at March 8 Share-a-Thon

Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area, Oregon

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Geology for Normal People

Normal Person:“Anyone who is not a geologist.”

Comments Overheard:• From park staff:– “Gee, it’s wonderful

you’re here. We had ageologist here a coupleyears ago. A nice guywho really knew hisstuff. Unfortunately, wedidn’t understand aword he said.”

• From a geologist:– “Yea, I went to a ranger

talk. But the rangerknew nothing aboutgeology. Didn’t evenknow the differencebetween a granite and agranodiorite.”

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Yaquina Head OutstandingNatural Area, Oregon

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FortuneCookie:

“Your romanticlife is interesting

only to you.”

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Heceta Head Lighthouse StateScenic Viewpoint, Oregon

“Interpretation involves translatingthe technical language of a naturalscience or related field into termsand ideas that people who aren’tscientists can readily understand.”From: “Environmental Interpretation: APractical Guide for People with Big Ideasand Small Budgets” (Sam Ham, 1992)

What is Interpretation?

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Which statement would people mostlikely remember? Why?

• A tsunami is a seismically generated wavewith an amplitude of less than one meter inthe open ocean, growing to 10 meters ormore in shallow water.

• More than a quarter million people werekilled when a broad sea wave, caused by anundersea earthquake, raced across theIndian Ocean and swelled to great heights asit approached coastal communities.

Olympic National Park, Washington

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Olympic National Park, WashingtonIntellectual Connections

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Olympic National Park, WashingtonIntellectual Connections Emotional Connections

Ranger Shelton Johnson, Yosemite National Park, California

What is Interpretation?National Park Service (NPS):“Interpretation ….. creates opportunities for visitors toform their own intellectual and emotional connectionsto the meanings inherent in a park resource.”

http://kezi.com/news/local/248218

Agate Beach State Recreation Site, Oregon

http://kezi.com/news/local/248218


Came from Misawa, Japan,on the north tip of Honshu

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Large dock washed up on Oregon Coast June 5, 2012.

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Agate Beach State Recreation Site,Oregon

Japan and Oregon:Linked by a special

Sense of Place

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Interpretation is about revealingthe rest of the story.

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OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, Oregon

Japanese Tsunami Dock Interpretive Exhibit

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Beverly Beach State Park,Oregon

Interpretation is aboutrevealing the rest of

the story.

1. Landscape:- Shows how geological materials

and processes affect biology,ecology, and human history.

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Cape Blanco State Park,Oregon

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Heceta Head LighthouseState Scenic Viewpoint,

Oregon

2. EarthScope and otherGeophysical Monitoring:- Reinforce these connections by

highlighting a dynamic Earth.

http://kezi.com/news/local/248218Agate Beach State Recreation Site, Oregon

• What do you see when you look at the dock? The physical things you can see and describe are tangibles:

(Size, shape, color, materials, plants/animals attached, word “Japan”)

• What about the rest of the story ……Things that come to mind are likely intangibles:(Awe, power, destruction, family, struggle, life, death, sense of place)

• Helpful if some of the intangibles are universal …..Most anyone can relate to them, and tend to be more emotional:(Life, death, family, etc.)

• But some of the intangibles can be scientific ……Also important and tend to be more intellectual:(Plate tectonic forces, frequency of earthquakes, causes of tsunamis)

Tangibles and IntangiblesDock washed up on an Oregon beach ……

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Ranger Jon PrestonOlympic National Park, Washington

Effective RangerProgram

• Personal experience ofthe ranger

• Good factual content• Level appropriate for

audience• Relates factual content

to people’s lives

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Won’t workif any linkis missing!

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Beverly Beach State Park, Oregon

Theme1. Complete sentence2. Connects tangibles

and intangibles3. Answers “so what”4. A message, an idea

Can we design an effective interpretativetalk on geology for the Oregon Coast?

Themes for Cape Arago Region State Parks:Geological Connections

•Theme: The Cape Arago Region is a dynamic edge wherepowerful forces shape the land and create a resource-richenvironment.• Sub-themes:

1. At this coastal edge, landforms shift slowly but constantly through theinterplay of natural processes and cycles that occur on a spectrum ofscales from large to small.

2. Sudden, cataclysmic events such as earthquakes and tsunamis changethe landscape and present ongoing challenges for coastal communities.

3. Pinnipeds depend on this coastal edge to rest on offshore rocks andrear their pups in safety. Other communities thrive on this dynamicedge as well.

North Cove Tidepool Area, Cape Arago State Park, Oregon

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“The same geological processes that sculpt Oregon’sbreathtaking headlands and beaches also threaten ourlives with earthquakes and tsunamis.”

Beauty and the BeastTheme

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Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint

How can we incorporateEarthScope and othergeological observations intoeducational programsspanning a variety of topicsin parks, museums, andclassrooms along theCascadia coast?

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Salmon River, Oregon

Newport, Oregon GPS Station

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OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center,Newport, Oregon

Interpretive PresentationsGroups of 3-5, including at least:

- one Teacher- one Interpreter- one Emergency Management Educator

Develop presentation today, including:- Content

- Landscape- Geological Processes- Seismic and/or GPS monitoring- Emergency Preparedness

- Might have Props:- Posters? Rocks?- Slide for background (beach?)

Thursday Afternoon Presentation:- “Fearless Leader” tells us:

- Name of Group- Title of Presentation- Setting- Audience- Theme Statement

- Then: - 10-Minute Presentation

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Jen Natolli, OSU Geosciences Graduate StudentPark Ranger, Redwood National and State Parks, California

You’ve heard of “Fun with Phonics?”This is fun with, Plate Tectonics

Drillhole across San Andreas Fault875 GPS Instruments175 Borehole Strainmeters5 Long-Baseline Laser Strainmeters400 Seismometers at 2,000 sites100 Permanent Seismometers

2. Basin and Range Province• Reno, Nevada• October 19–22, 2008

For Interpretive Professionals in Parks and Museums

Informal Education Workshops

www.earthscope.org/eno/parks

Monitoring the Dynamic Landscape Enhances our “Sense of Place”

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Slide Mountain, Nevada

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Bill Hammond, Universityof Nevada – Reno

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We’re notstanding still …

PBO – GPSSlide Mountain,

Nevada


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PBO – GPSSlide Mountain,

Nevada

We’re moving awayfrom Kansas


Sense of Place: Our place is moving!

EarthScope GPS StationsBackbone Network

Subduction Cluster Volcanic ClusterTransform Cluster Extension Cluster

How do stations inthe Basin andRange Province .....

…. move relative to“backbone” stationson the stable Craton?

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FutureMountain Ranges

Interpretive Presentation:Basin – Range Tectonic Development

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Sense of Place: Our place is moving and changing!

Drillhole across San Andreas Fault875 GPS Instruments175 Borehole Strainmeters5 Long-Baseline Laser Strainmeters400 Seismometers at 2,000 sites100 Permanent Seismometers

Informal Education Workshops

www.earthscope.org/eno/parks

6. New Madrid - Central U. S.• March 17-20, 2011• 200th Anniversary of Big Earthquakes• USArray Rolling across the Midwest ….

For Interpretive Professionals in Parks and MuseumsMonitoring the Dynamic Landscape Enhances our “Sense of Place”

EarthScope New Madrid -- Central U.S. Interpretive Workshop, March 17-20, 2011

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Grace Landforms

Sense of Place: Our place is special!


Shaken’ Bacon

Who’s afraid of the BigBad Earthquake Wolf?

Sense of Place: Our home can fall down ….But we can do something about it!

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OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center,Newport, Oregon

Interpretive Presentations(Thursday Afternoon)

Develop presentation today,including:

- Content- Landscape- Geological Processes- Seismic and/or GPS monitoring- Emergency Preparedness

- Might have Props:- Posters? Rocks?- Slide for background (beach?)

Thursday Afternoon Presentation:- “Fearless Leader” tells us:

- Name of Group- Title of Presentation- Setting- Audience- Theme Statement

- Then: - 10-Minute Presentation

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Oregon Paleo Lands Institute,Fossil, Oregon

Educational Products(Now - February)

A product or related products thatserve:

1. Students2. Park/museum visitors3. Concerned citizens

Messaging should include:1. Some science content, for example:

- Landscape Development- Seismic/GPS monitoring

2. Emergency PreparednessTime Frame:

- Plan Thursday Afternoon- Develop Now - February- Present at March 8, 2014 Share-a-Thon

Examples:- Posters, Exhibits- Trail Guides, Brochures- Presentations at beaches, overlooks,

classrooms, visitor/community centers- Movies, Animations, Flip Books

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Oregon Paleo Lands Institute,Fossil, Oregon

Educational Products(Now - February)

A product or related products thatserve:

1. Students2. Park/museum visitors3. Concerned citizens

Kip’s “Ideal” Example:- Emergency Management Educator

works on program for Senior CitizenCenter

- EM Educator Collaborates withTeacher to involve his/her students

- Teacher has Interpreter work withstudents on skit involvingearthquake/tsunami science andpreparedness

- Students present skit at Senior CitizenCenter, followed by question/answersession involving Teacher, Interpreter,and EM Educator.

exchange of pedagogies: interpreting the “beauty and the

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