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- ICON article published
Now published in Earth and Space Science: Geoscience Education Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science
- Apply Now for Virtual Workshops: Teaching Computation Online with MATLAB
Applications are now open for Teaching Computation Online with MATLAB virtual workshops.
- 2022 Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum
The 6th Biennial Structural Geology and Tectonics Forum (SGTF) will be hosted this June at Bowdoin College. The SGT Forum consists of 3 days of plenary sessions (including an all-conference field trip to some of the spectacular coastal exposures of mid-coast Maine); optional field trips and workshops are being offered pre- and post-conference.
- Workshop on Bringing Geophysics to Introductory Science Courses: Using IGUaNA Modules in Your Classroom
We invite faculty to participate in an upcoming, fully-funded workshop, with both classroom and field components, focusing on using the IGUaNA curriculum modules in introductory level courses. These materials feature urban environmental, engineering, and forensic questions that can be answered using near-surface geophysics.
- Stipends available for new BCEENET CURE Implementer Fellows!
Are you interested in learning how to incorporate natural history collections data into a course-based undergraduate research project? We will be supporting 10 new BCEENET CURE Implementer Fellows during the 2022-2023 academic year with a stipend of $1000 each. Apply today!

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The Supporting and Advancing Geoscience Education at Two-Year Colleges (SAGE 2YC) project and website helps two-year college geoscience faculty implement high-impact, evidence-based instructional and ...
Supporting and Advancing Geoscience Education in Two-Year CollegesThe GETSI teaching materials feature geodetic data and quantitative skills applied to societally important issues (climate change, natural hazards, water resources, environmental management). These ...
GETSIEarthLabs units offer sequences for learning science concepts through hands-on experiments and data analysis.
EarthLabs for EducatorsThis 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 IIAbout 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 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 EconomicsThe 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
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 ...
InTeGrateThe 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 ItThe 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 ...
NAGTThe Genomics Explorers provide an iterative way for students to choose strategies for asking and addressing biologically interesting questions using a range of genomics tools. Select which Explorer ...
Exploring Genomics DataThis 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 HydrologyThis 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 SkillsThis 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 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 EdgeEarth 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 ...
EarthLabsOur 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 ...
CLEANConnecting 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 ActionThis 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