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About Compass
Project Description SERC currently hosts materials from over 120 geoscience education projects, and the majority of geoscience faculty report using these sites to support their teaching (Manduca et al., 2017). But ...

New Navigation Tools
The Compass project has advanced a pair of new navigation tools for visitors to SERC hosted sites. The 'Where I've Been Feature' allows you to review and revisit content that you've visited ...

Community Meeting 2021 invitation
Greetings Geoscience Educators, We invite you to attend a science education community meeting on April 15, 2021 to discuss the Compass Project, an NSF-funded effort led by the Science Education Resource Center ...

This round of Search Engine Tuning is done
Thanks for your interest.  We collected a lot of good data from the community and used it to do an initial tuning of our search engine.  Be sure to sign up to learn about future opportunities.

Supporting Accessible Learning Resources
SERC is taking a multi-pronged approach to improving the accessibility of geoscience education resources as part of the Compass project. A key element is a new resource guide designed to get instructors up-to-speed ...

New Activity Classification Display
Activity descriptions now include key category information like Subject, and Grade Level. This information is connected to our new Activity Search Interface so that you can jump directly from a particular activity ...

News from Compass
Skip to search results Skip to pagination New Activity Classification Display Posted: Aug 24 2023Activity descriptions now include key category information like Subject, and Grade Level. This information is ...

Compass: Advancing Earth Education Resource Discovery
Sean Fox, Carleton College
The Compass project responds to the need, identified by the Earth Education community, to improve the discoverability of existing, high-quality Earth education resources. The project will focus on three key ...

Discover Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) Resources
The Compass project has developed a new search interface for finding SERC-hosted resources that support diversity, equity, inclusion and justice in geoscience education. Through a new DEIJ vocabulary you can ...

Compass Community Discovery Advisors
The following people are engaged with the Compass project as Community Discovery Advisors (CDAs). × Jennifer Anderson Jennifer Anderson is a Professor of Geoscience at Winona State University in southeastern ...