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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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Project Focus
- Career Support for Educators 1 match Focus on supporting educators in their careers. This includes pre-service and in-service professional development for k-12 teachers, support for college educators aimed at different career stages and elements like leadership development.
- Changing Education Systems 3 matches Focus on how to make positive change in education systems. This includes departmental change, institutional change, as well as other systemic change across institutions and disciplines.
- Connecting STEM Research to Education 5 matches Focuses on bringing current STEM research practice and knowledge into education. This includes research experiences for student such as field work, CURE's and summer research experiences (like REU's). It also includes strategies and resources for bringing current research literature, practices and knowledge into the classroom and informal science communication.
- Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind 3 matches 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.
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice 1 match Focuses on one or more dimensions of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice (DEIJ). This encompasses a wide range of topics including anti-racism, accessibility, ethics, and broadening access to education.
- Engaging Students with Communities 1 match Focus on connecting students and education processes with broader communities and civic issues.
- Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges 5 matches Focus on grand challenge problems that require multiple disciplinary strategies. This includes issues like climate change and the interconnected issues of food, energy and water. The solutions integrate STEM-informed approaches as well as wisdom from the social sciences, arts, humanities and other ways of knowing.
- Network and Community Building 3 matches Focus on supporting the development and nurturing of networks of individuals. This includes community visioning efforts, supporting communities of practices, and understanding and supporting the growth of networks.
- Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches 8 matches Focuses on one or more dimensions of how educational experiences are structured. This encompass topics such as curriculum design, informal education strategies, universal design for learning, and specific classroom approaches. It includes both educational research and applied practice. (Includes simple materials development.)
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- Online Tool Development 1 match
Website Hosting and Development
19 matches General/OtherGrade Level
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- Ecosystems 2 matches
- Energy 2 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Water Quality and Quantity 2 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Global Change and Climate 5 matches
- Waste 1 match
- Soils and Agriculture 2 matches
- Land Use and Planning 1 match planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 1 match
- Sustainability 3 matches
- Natural Hazards 1 match
- Policy 3 matches
Environmental Science
12 matches General/OtherWebsite Hosting and Development: A focus on providing the technical infrastructure and support for a project's website. This can include activities such as creating new SERCkit tools, development of website architecture, and design of the website's look and feel.
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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.
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
SERC Role: Evaluation, Professional Development, Content Expertise, Website Hosting and Development, Community Building/Organization, Event Development/Facilitation, Materials Development/Review, Organizational Backbone, Product Dissemination
IODP School of Rock 2020
The Scientific Ocean Drilling IMPACT workshop series, held in 2020-2022, strived to chart the future course of science communication and outreach for scientific ocean drilling, in direct support of the 2050 Framework for Scientific Ocean Drilling and its call to "communicate far-reaching scientific ocean drilling knowledge to the broader community." SERC provided support in hosting the project website, including providing virtual workshop support, web infrastructure for a 2022 in-person workshop, and as a mechanism for disseminating project products.
The Scientific Ocean Drilling IMPACT workshop series, held in 2020-2022, strived to chart the future course of science communication and outreach for scientific ocean drilling, in direct support of the 2050 Framework for Scientific Ocean Drilling and its call to "communicate far-reaching scientific ocean drilling knowledge to the broader community." SERC provided support in hosting the project website, including providing virtual workshop support, web infrastructure for a 2022 in-person workshop, and as a mechanism for disseminating project products.
Project Focus: Network and Community Building
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination, Event Development/Facilitation
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination, Event Development/Facilitation
A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial
This project developed web-based curricular materials investigating the events in Woburn, MA that inspired the movie A Civil Action. Developed from a popular mock-trial course at Ohio State University, the site consists of a series of educational modules that students work through culminating in a mock trial. SERC designed the overall structure of the website and supported the leaders in transitioning a locally taught course into a model and resource for others.
This project developed web-based curricular materials investigating the events in Woburn, MA that inspired the movie A Civil Action. Developed from a popular mock-trial course at Ohio State University, the site consists of a series of educational modules that students work through culminating in a mock trial. SERC designed the overall structure of the website and supported the leaders in transitioning a locally taught course into a model and resource for others.
Project Focus: Engaging Students with Communities, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Authentic Science Experience
SERC Role: Evaluation, Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development, Materials Development/Review
SERC Role: Evaluation, Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development, Materials Development/Review
TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions
TREX provides a series of undergraduate labs that engage students in exploring tree ring science through virtual fields trips and using data from online data. SERC helped develop the structure for this website as well as implementing online data exploration tools used within the labs.
TREX provides a series of undergraduate labs that engage students in exploring tree ring science through virtual fields trips and using data from online data. SERC helped develop the structure for this website as well as implementing online data exploration tools used within the labs.
Project Focus: Connecting STEM Research to Education
SERC Role: Materials Development/Review, Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
SERC Role: Materials Development/Review, Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
SISL
Sustainability Improves Student Learning (SISL) was an collaboration between academic association and professional societies that strived to improve teaching and preparation of undergraduates to address real-world sustainability challenges. SERC provided support for the development of the website.
Sustainability Improves Student Learning (SISL) was an collaboration between academic association and professional societies that strived to improve teaching and preparation of undergraduates to address real-world sustainability challenges. SERC provided support for the development of the website.
Project Focus: Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development
CLEAN
The CLEAN Pathway provides a reviewed collection of classroom materials for teaching climate literacy and energy awareness for students in grades 6-16. Hallmarks of the project include the collection of educational materials, a set of pedagogic strategies for teaching these topics, and an ongoing series of professional development events for teachers and faculty. SERC provides the web platform for CLEAN as well as the tools utilized for review.
The CLEAN Pathway provides a reviewed collection of classroom materials for teaching climate literacy and energy awareness for students in grades 6-16. Hallmarks of the project include the collection of educational materials, a set of pedagogic strategies for teaching these topics, and an ongoing series of professional development events for teachers and faculty. SERC provides the web platform for CLEAN as well as the tools utilized for review.
Project Focus: Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges , Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Website Hosting and Development, Materials Development/Review, Event Development/Facilitation
SERC Role: Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Website Hosting and Development, Materials Development/Review, Event Development/Facilitation
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.
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
SERC Role: Project Management/Implementation, Website Hosting and Development, Organizational Backbone, Event Development/Facilitation
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.
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
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.
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
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
Know Soil, Know Life Educators Guide
This website is the educator's guide to Soil Society of America's Know Soils Know Life high school/undergraduate textbook. It provides activities, assessments, sequencing guidance and standards information for educator's using the textbook.
This website is the educator's guide to Soil Society of America's Know Soils Know Life high school/undergraduate textbook. It provides activities, assessments, sequencing guidance and standards information for educator's using the textbook.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development