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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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Content Expertise: A focus on SERC staff writing disciplinary content for a project. Many SERC staff members have advanced degrees and all can contribute a wide range of content knowledge to projects.

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NC-FEW
NC-Few is community and hub to support the emergence of interdisciplinary educational efforts focused on food, energy, and water systems in a wide array of educational contexts. SERC is working with NC-FEW leadership in developing virtual and in-person events and evaluating the project's impact and outcomes.
Project Focus: Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges
SERC Role: Evaluation, Professional Development, Content Expertise, Website Hosting and Development, Community Building/Organization, Event Development/Facilitation, Materials Development/Review, Organizational Backbone, Product Dissemination
Math You Need - Majors
The Math You Need for Earth Science Majors provides online, student-centered, math modules with a geoscience context aimed at strenghthening quantitative skills of majors-level geoscience students. SERC co-leads this project through web hosting, development of teaching modules, and workshop design and facilitation.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Quantitative Skills
SERC Role: Materials Development/Review, Professional Development, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Event Development/Facilitation, Content Expertise:Geoscience, Website Hosting and Development, Project Management/Implementation
Spatial Thinking Workbook
The Spatial Thinking Workbook project is focused on improving spatial skills in upper-division undergraduate geoscience courses. SERC was involved in the leadership of this project and the development of its teaching activities and spatial learning assessments.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Spatial and Temporal Thinking
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Evaluation, Education Research, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Community Building/Organization, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Project Management/Implementation, Content Expertise:Geoscience, 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
SAGE 2YC
By engaging 2YC geoscience faculty in professional development, the SAGE2YC project disseminated advances in STEM education to improve teaching, support students in geoscience technical training, and help prepare geoscience majors and pre-service teachers for college transfer. This program shared successful strategies for teaching students with a range of abilities, experiences, and goals, and for preparing 2YC students for the geoscience workforce.
Project Focus: Career Support for Educators, Changing Education Systems
SERC Role: Professional Development, Evaluation, Organizational Backbone, Community Building/Organization, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Project Management/Implementation, Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Content Expertise
Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education
This project developed an online system where undergraduate instructors can share and repurpose data-centered hydrology teaching units. SERC helped develop the curriculum module system and hosts the website.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Authentic Science Experience, Working with Data
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Product Dissemination, Materials Development/Review
Compass
The project's primary goal is to enhance access to high-quality Earth education resources by understanding how educators use SERC's materials, improving SERC's infrastructure and organization for easier access, and expanding discoverable resources through partnerships. SERC leads this project using community input to guide the improvements to SERC discovery infrastructure.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Organizational Backbone, Product Dissemination, Evaluation, Materials Development/Review, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Project Management/Implementation, Content Expertise, Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Website Hosting and Development
ADVANCEGeo Partnership
The ADVANCEGeo Partnership is addressing the problematic behaviors, such as sexual harassment, discrimination, and bullying, that lead to hostile working environments in the earth, space, and environmental sciences. ADVANCEGeo works to improve workplace climate conditions through bystander intervention education and resources tailored to department heads and chairs, faculty, and graduate students in research environments. SERC supports this project with its expertise in web dissemination to facilitate the workshop model and expand the reach of project resources.
Project Focus: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Changing Education Systems
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Content Expertise:Accessibility, Event Development/Facilitation
Microbial Life
This project aimed to provide a contemporary resource of expert information about the ecology, diversity and evolution of micro-organisms as well as common research techniques used in the field for students, K-12 teachers, university faculty, as well as for the general public. It was a collaborative project of the Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, and Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
Project Focus: Connecting STEM Research to Education, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Materials Development/Review, Content Expertise:Geoscience
Integrating Research and Education
This site explored ways to bring modern research results into undergraduate courses and served as a primary pathway for ensuring courses reflected rapid advances in the discipline and served as an exciting mechanism for engaging students. SERC hosts the website and SERC staff contributed to content on the site.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Connecting STEM Research to Education
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Professional Development, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Materials Development/Review, Content Expertise:Geoscience