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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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Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches: 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.)
Event Development/Facilitation: A focus on planning, organizing, and supporting in-person or virtual events as part of a project's activities. This can include logistical support, program development, session facilitation, and all other aspects of running successful events.

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Research on Learning
This site aggregates resources collected and developed for and in response to a 2002 workshop: Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences. The website seeks to further the conversations that were begun at the workshop regarding areas where learning scientists and geoscientists have complementary interests and expertise. SERC hosts the workshop materials and those from a range of related events and activities.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Event Development/Facilitation, Community Building/Organization, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI)
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.
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
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
PENGUIN
PENGUIN modules provide a computational framework to allow students to work actively with polar research and data through conduct guided inquiry. Working through a Jupyter Notebook or Excel Sheet, students analyze polar research and data: creating figures, performing calculations, asking questions, and thinking critically about what the data shows. The modules are designed for courses in Economics, Computer Science, Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Environmental Science Tools and Methods, from intro to advanced. SERC provided website support and hosting as well as support for the project's webinars.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination, Materials Development/Review, Event Development/Facilitation
CUREnet
CUREnet supports networking among faculty developing, teaching, and assessing Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), to share CURE projects and resources, and to develop new tools and strategies for CURE instruction and assessment.
Project Focus: Connecting STEM Research to Education, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination, Materials Development/Review, Event Development/Facilitation
Curriculum for the Bioregion
Curriculum for the Bioregion is a network of educators in Washington State who are integrating sustainability and place-based content and pedagogy in a broad array of undergraduate courses and community-based learning. SERC hosts the project website and provided tools to facilitate faculty learning community meetings.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Changing Education Systems, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind
SERC Role: Materials Development/Review, Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership
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
Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation
Following on to the NextGen-WA STEM Teacher Preparation Project, this website is designed to provide a curated set of resources for people working in the STEM K-12 teacher preparation space. Resources in this collection include peer-reviewed publications, white papers, descriptions of innovative curricula and courses, activities, tools and case studies written by STEM teacher preparation experts from around the country. These resources are designed to be useful for STEM teacher preparation stakeholders across the United States and beyond. SERC provided website support as well as website logistical support for project-led events.
Project Focus: Changing Education Systems, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Product Dissemination
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
Earth Educators Rendezvous
The Earth Educators' Rendezvous is a semi-annual conference featuring a combination of workshops, posters, talks, round-table discussions, field trips, and plenary presentations. SERC manages the conference logistics, supports the conference programming, assist the planning committee, and hosts the conference website.
Project Focus: Career Support for Educators, Connecting STEM Research to Education, Network and Community Building , Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Event Development/Facilitation, Project Management/Implementation, Website Hosting and Development