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Designing and Using Videos in Undergraduate Geoscience Education
Feb 7 - May 2, 2014
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- SERC Announces New Assistant Director
The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Cailin Huyck Orr has accepted the position of Assistant Director. Cailin comes to us from Washington State University where she worked with interdisciplinary teams including collaborators in geosciences, engineering, economics, and communications. SERC is delighted to welcome Cailin to our team beginning June 16! - Hazards Event Page: Oso Landslide
On the Cutting Edge has released a new Hazards Event Page with resources related to the March 22 landslide near Oso, WA. - NAGT On the Cutting Edge Announce New Partnerships
The National Association of Geoscience Teachers On the Cutting Edge is pleased to announce today that the American Geophysical Union, along with the Geological Society of America, have agreed to a formative partnership to improve the learning and teaching of the geosciences. - InTeGrate Module Author in the News
InTeGrate module author Sarah Fortner, and her students at Wittenberg College, make the news. - InTeGrate 2014 Workshops Announced
The InTeGrate program is offering 2 new workshops for 2014, plus four partnership workshops in collaboration with On the Cutting Edge and GeoEthics.
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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 Toolbook
EarthLabs units offer sequences for learning science concepts through hands-on experiments and data analysis.
EarthLabs for Educators
A portal to activities, workshops and other teaching materials for Geoscience Educators.
Teach the Earth
This site introduces economists to innovative teaching strategies developed both within and beyond the discipline of economics. It provides instructors with the tools to begin integrating and ...
Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics
By engaging 2YC geoscience faculty in professional development, the SAGE2YC project disseminates advances in STEM education to improve teaching, support students, and help prepare geoscience majors ...
Geoscience in Two-Year Colleges
The Numeracy Infusion Course for Higher Education (NICHE) is a project of the City University of New York (CUNY) Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Alliance to foster the infusion of QR instruction and ...
Numeracy and Quantitative Reasoning
SENCER applies the science of learning to the learning of science, all to expand civic capacity. SENCER courses and programs connect science, technology, engineering, and mathematics content to ...
Search SENCER Resources
Earth 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 ...
EarthLabs
The 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
This 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 II
The 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 ...
NAGT
For Faculty and Instructors Undergraduate Teaching for a Sustainable Future Learn More » For Program Directors and Administrators Laying the Foundation for Tomorrow's Sustainability Workforce ...
InTeGrate
This 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
Welcome to SERC's portal for K-12 Educators. We've scoured dozens of educational project websites hosted by SERC to find the activities and resources of highest interest to K-12 educators. ...
K12
The On the Cutting Edge project helps geoscience faculty stay up-to-date with both geoscience research and teaching methods through workshops and websites which combine to provide professional ...
Cutting Edge
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 Resources
The CLEAN Pathway provides a reviewed collection of classroom materials for teaching climate and energy literacy for students in grades 6-16. Hallmarks of the project include the collection of ...
CLEAN
This 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 Geoscience
This 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 Trial
This 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 Education
A library of teaching methods, example activities and literature on research on learning.
Pedagogy in Action
