SERC

Science Education Resource Center
at Carleton College

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Spatial Thinking Workbook

This project is developing and testing teaching materials to improve the spatial thinking skills of geoscience undergraduates, using strategies supported by cognitive science and geoscience education research.

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• ASCN Community Conversation: Building and Sustaining a Faculty Mentor Constellation
  In today's complex university landscape, no single person can successfully guide your research pipeline, perfect your teaching pedagogy, decipher department politics, and preserve your work-life balance. This fast-paced 75-minute interactive workshop from ASCN helps faculty members map, identify, and secure the multi-layered network of mentors needed for career advancement, research support, and work-life balance.
• Webinar: Teaching 3D visualization skills through Visible Geology webinar
  

  Join us for an interactive webinar showcasing example lessons using the freely available Visible Geology web-based applications. We'll introduce a suite of new, peer-reviewed teaching activities designed for structural geology, sedimentology/stratigraphy, and field methods.

• Workshop: Developing Activities for Flumes and Stream Tables
  

  This 2-session virtual workshop, sponsored by the Emriver Educational Resources project, will focus on helping educators develop ideas for teaching with flumes and stream tables into implementable teaching activities.

• Revamped For Higher Ed Portal
  SERC's For Higher Ed portal has been updated and refreshed with new resources from across the SERC portfolio! The portal provides faculty, department chairs, and others with direct access to resources to improve teaching practice and strengthen programs and systems.
• Workshop for Heads and Chairs at AGU
  

  This one-day workshop provides an opportunity for leaders of geoscience departments to come together to learn, share, and build community to collectively strengthen geoscience programs and departments.

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What's New at SERC

CLEAN climate literacy and energy collection

The CLEAN site includes more than 850 ready-to-use resources that have been reviewed by educators and scientists for elementary, secondary and higher education settings.

GP-IMPACT: Expanding HBCU Pathways for Geoscience Education

Program profiles for STEM teacher preparation illuminate the goals, strengths, and successes of the participating institutions in increasing the ability of future teachers to teach geoscience content in K12 classrooms and provide key recommendations to support other HBCUs.

The Math You Need, When You Need It Math Tutorials for Students Majoring in the Earth Sciences

Undergraduate majors in the Earth and environmental sciences also often struggle with effectively applying math in Earth science. This project is developing co-curricular modules to support majors-level students on math concepts relevant to their courses.