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Upcoming Virtual EDDIE Workshop at AGU: Building Quantitative Literacy Through Science, Education, and Art
Posted: Oct 28 2021

Are you excited to support your students in developing skills for science and connecting with communities? Sign up for a workshop at the American Geophysical Union Meeting:Building Quantitative Literacy Through Science, Education, and Art! Democratize access to science by teaching inquiry with open data. Learn strategies from artists to support students in making cultural and community connections, or using science for advocacy.

BASICS Project Releases New Teaching Module on Water Quality
Posted: Oct 26 2021

The first of two teaching modules from the BASICS (Business and Science: Integrated Curriculum for Sustainability) Project has been made live. The 1-2 week module, The Wicked Problem of Water Quality in the Mississippi River Watershed, is designed to engage students in complex systems-based thinking.

SAGE 2YC Project Publishes in JGE: Making Departments Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive
Posted: Oct 21 2021

The SAGE 2YC project (Supporting and Advancing Geoscience Education at Two-Year Colleges) has published an open-access article outlining a practical, step-by-step process geoscience departments can use to improve equity and inclusion, highlighting levers for cultural change and strategies for identifying context-appropriate solutions from the research literature.

Serckit Editor Update August 2020
Posted: Aug 20 2020

If you're editing pages on SERC sites there's now a new editor with features like collaborative editing. Learn more about the features of this new editor

Registration Deadlines for Upcoming NAGT Webinar Series
Posted: Jul 31 2020

Upcoming registration deadlines for the NAGT Webinar Series!

SERC Collaborator wins Presidential Teaching Award
Posted: Sep 15 2015
Peter Bohacek, a leader on the Direct Measurement Video physics education project was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
Science for Non-Scientists
Posted: Nov 5 2013
The Science for Non-Scientists project website hosts all of the materials developed for an undergraduate course called "Science for Non-Scientists." Students enrolled in this course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed very significant gains in critical thinking skills, as measured by the Critical Thinking Assessment Test , developed at Tennessee Tech University.
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