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Initial Publication Date: March 16, 2015

SERC has an extensive portfolio of projects that have been created, developed, and implemented in collaboration with many partners. Learn more about many of our current and past projects using the browse below.

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IGUaNA
The goal of the IGUaNA project is to attract a diverse population of students to geophysics through the development of teaching materials that highlight the application of geophysical tools and methods to societally-relevant questions, including environmental, engineering, and forensic questions in urban settings. SERC provided the PIs with website hosting, formative and summative evaluation, and workshop design and facilitation expertise.
Project Focus: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Evaluation, Professional Development, Event Development/Facilitation
OOI
The Data Labs project is building community of practice to bring National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) data into undergraduate teaching using evidence-based pedagogies. The evaluation and research focuses on assessing faculty experiences in professional development events and activities and understanding the needs of the community.
SERC Role: Evaluation
Using the Neotoma Database in the Classroom
The goal of the Neotoma project was to leverage the Neotoma Paleoecology Database in the classroom to teach biotic response to climate change. SERC hosts teaching modules and related teaching activities.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation
Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics
The Starting Point: Econ project introduces economists to innovative teaching strategies, provides instructors with the tools to begin integrating and assessing these teaching strategies, and promotes the sharing of teaching innovations among instructors. SERC hosts and supports the project website.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Materials Development/Review, Product Dissemination
GETSI
The GETSI teaching materials feature geodetic data and quantitative skills applied to societally important issues (climate change, natural hazards, water resources, environmental management) for introductory and majors-level courses. SERC's role includes website hosting, collaborating on website and professional development design, student assessment, and program evaluation.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Quantitative Skills, Working with Data
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Materials Development/Review, Event Development/Facilitation, Evaluation
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
The National Association of Geoscience Teachers is a community of educators and education researchers working together to improve teaching and learning about Earth. SERC operates the Executive Office of the organization, supports NAGT programming, and hosts the NAGT website.
Project Focus: Connecting STEM Research to Education, Network and Community Building
SERC Role: Project Management/Implementation, Website Hosting and Development, Organizational Backbone, Event Development/Facilitation
Mars for Earthlings
This project offered teaching materials such as learning modules and interviews with scientists that promote undergraduate students' study of Mars, including remote sensing data and Earth-based analogs. These collections of teaching materials are hosted by the SERC site.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Working with Data, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development
BASICS
The Business And Science: Integrated Curriculum for Sustainability (BASICS) team developed and pilot-tested transdisciplinary curricular modules and discipline-specific activities for undergraduate students that combine STEM, business, and other fields of knowledge, with a focus on the wicked problems of sustainability in a global economy. SERC leads the work on student assessment that measures student learning and attitudinal changes related to the BASICS curriculum and leads the work on disseminating the curriculum via the website.
Project Focus: Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges
SERC Role: Evaluation, Education Research, Content Expertise:Accessibility, Content Expertise, Website Hosting and Development
Model-Evidence Link Diagrams Project
This project promotes students' civic and scientific evaluations of sources and alternative claims when confronted with controversial and/or complex socioscientific issues in the Earth and environmental sciences through Lateral Reading (LR) and Model-Evidence Link (MEL) scaffolds. SERC hosts this the website which provides supporting teaching resources for K-12 teachers.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
Pedagogy in Action
This pedagogic service capitalizes on the successful model of the Starting Point: Teaching Entry-Level Geosciences portal by allowing institutions and digital libraries partners to integrate information about effective pedagogy into their websites. Learn about the what, why, and how to implement more than 30 effective pedagogies, each of which is paired with a collection of ready-to-use activities. SERC has partnered with collaborators across disciplines to create a multi-disciplinary collection.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Website Hosting and Development, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Professional Development, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Education Research, Materials Development/Review