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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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Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind: Focuses on developing students' ability to think and act with disciplinary expertise. This encompasses concepts like systems thinking, quantitative reasoning, field-based learning, spatial and temporal thinking, data visualization and manipulation.

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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
Earth Exploration Toolbook
Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) is a collection of online Earth system science activities. Each activity, or chapter, introduces one or more scientific data sets and analysis tools that enables students to explore some aspect of the Earth system. SERC collaborated on the development of the toolset and curricular structure for this project and host its website.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Working with Data
SERC Role: Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Materials Development/Review
Teaching Computation in the Sciences Using MATLAB
Teaching Computation in the Sciences Using MATLAB is a collaboration between MathWorks and SERC to provide resources to help educators incorporate computation into their classrooms and engage with a community of educators interested in improving the teaching of computational skills.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind
SERC Role: Project Management/Implementation, Materials Development/Review, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Event Development/Facilitation, Website Hosting and Development
Project EDDIE
Project EDDIE develops flexible, stand-alone, and modular classroom activities for undergraduate students using long-term and high-frequency datasets to explore the core scientific concepts and develop quantitative literacy. Throughout the lifetime of the project, the SERC team has taken on a number of roles such as initially providing expertise on modular activity development and website development and student assessment.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Working with Data
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Materials Development/Review, Evaluation, Project Management/Implementation, Community Building/Organization, Website Hosting and Development, Content Expertise:Accessibility, Pedagogy, Geoscience
EarthLabs
EarthLabs provides a national model for engaging k-12 Earth and environmental science labs. Multiple units illustrate sequences for learning science concepts through data analysis activities and hands-on experiments. SERC designed the website structure that supports both students and instructors and hosts this heavily used set of materials.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Working with Data
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Evaluation, Materials Development/Review, Website Hosting and Development, Content Expertise:Accessibility, Pedagogy
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
TIDeS
The Teaching with Investigation and Design in Science (TIDeS) project is supporting faculty to develop and implement curricular materials for introductory undergraduate science courses that focus on science investigation and engineering design. The aim of the project is to prepare future teachers by exposing them to discourse-filled, context-rich, inclusive classrooms on the premise that teachers should learn science the way they are expected to teach it. SERC is involved both through support of the rubric-driven curriculum development process as well as a multi-faceted evaluation making use of qualitative and quantitative methods to assess project objectives.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Authentic Science Experience
SERC Role: Evaluation, Product Dissemination, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Materials Development/Review, Content Expertise:Accessibility
Math You Need
Math You Need, When You Need It provides online, student-centered, math tutorials for introductory geoscience students.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Quantitative Skills
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development