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Join us in Northfield, MN for this engaging 3-day workshop where you'll learn how to integrate MATLAB teaching tools and code into material presentation and asynchronous student learning. - New Early Career resources for "Facilitating Meetings that Foster Equity and Inclusivity" live
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Are you developing a new course or revising a course you have taught before? This three-session workshop will help you use backwards design to generate assessments and instructional activities that meet both content and skills-based objectives. This highly interactive, synchronous online workshop will provide time for you to build foundational knowledge of best practices for course design, share strategies and exchange ideas with colleagues, to work independently on developing your course, and provide and receive feedback from peers.
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The Earth Exploration Toolbook is a collection of computer-based Earth science activities. Each activity, or chapter, introduces one or more data sets and an analysis tool that enables users to ...
Earth Exploration ToolbookEarthLabs units offer sequences for learning science concepts through hands-on experiments and data analysis.
EarthLabs for EducatorsThe Earth Educators' Rendezvous is a five day conference that takes place each summer at different locations across the country. Drawing across the work currently taking place in geoscience, ...
Earth Educators' RendezvousThis site provide guidance on introducing Nanotechnology across the STEM curriculum. It includes resources for both educators and students getting up to speed with the advances in this new field.
Nanotechnology in STEMAbout Browse Key Resources Teaching MaterialsExplore thousands of community-contributed teaching activities. Peer reviewed collections include: The On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Reviewed Activity ...
Teach the EarthThis website is designed to help students and instructors use the teaching modules and resource collections from the famous trial described in "A Civil Action" in science and ...
A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic TrialEthics Education is an increasingly important component of the pre-professional training of (geo)scientists. Funding agencies (NSF, NIH) require training of graduate students in the responsible ...
Teaching GeoEthics Across the Geoscience Curriculum
Teaching about Earth for a Sustainable Future: Materials for Faculty and Instructors Classroom Tested, Peer Reviewed and Designed to Fit into Your Course Explore the Teaching Materials » Support ...
InTeGrateThis site is designed to help faculty and graduate students learn about instructional methods for teaching undergraduate entry-level geoscience, environmental science, or related courses.
Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level GeoscienceThe Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) is a network of individuals and institutions, formed with the goal of more quickly advancing STEM education programs. Our unique approach is to bring ...
Accelerating Systemic Change NetworkThis collaborative project enhances hydrology education by creating a cyberinfrastructure for organized community efforts to develop, share, and publish data-driven curriculum for teaching ...
Geoinformatics Modules for Teaching HydrologyThe National Association of Geoscience Teachers works to foster improvement in the teaching of the Earth sciences at all levels of formal and informal instruction, to emphasize the cultural ...
NAGTThis website hosts instructional materials used in the Eyes in the Sky program. Eyes in the Sky II is an expansion of TERC's existing program that was supported by NSF ITEST funding.
Eyes in the Sky IIThis website provides information on the issues involved in teaching quantitative literacy, reasoning, and skills and methods for doing so as well as additional resources and a community of other ...
Quantitative Skills
This site contains educational and supporting materials for students and teachers of microbiology, including information about microorganisms and extremophiles, and links to online resources about ...
Microbial Life - Educational ResourcesThis website contains educational modules and digital library technologies that can be used to translate exciting new scientific discoveries into effective instructional practice.
Integrating Research and EducationThe On the Cutting Edge Professional Development Program for Geoscience Faculty brings together workshops, websites, and research activities to support highest quality undergraduate geoscience ...
Cutting EdgeOur team of educators and scientists has reviewed and organized the best free teaching resources for K-12 through college. Go Entire Collection Activities Videos Visualizations Featured Resource ...
CLEAN: Committed to Climate and Energy EducationEarth and environmental science classes are changing. Long perceived as low-level courses with little to engage or challenge students, they are becoming vital, rich, invigorating courses. As more ...
EarthLabsConnecting Theory to Classroom Practice × Teaching Methods The What, Why and How of Student Centered Learning Activities Direct from the Classroom Get Started With: Engaged Pedagogies We use ...
Pedagogy in ActionThe Math You Need, When You Need It provides web modules to help students succeed with mathematics in introductory geoscience classes.
The Math You Need, When You Need It