Writing Retreat
Jul 22-23 2026 The design of this retreat uses Lave and Wenger's (1991) community of practice theory to create a structured retreat for sustained writing. Participants will engage in dedicated writing time with the purpose ...

Instructional Design: How to write an elearning tutorial style quiz to advance scientific computing in your classroom
Jul 22-23 2026 This workshop empowers STEM educators to create tutorial-style quizzes that simultaneously teach and assess scientific computing skills. While computational thinking is essential across disciplines, many ...

Theories of Change and Logic Models
Jul 22-23 2026 Increasingly theories of change are expected to be a central component articulated within education research grant proposals and manuscripts. At the end of this short workshop, participants will be able to ...

Climate in your own backyard and DataWISE
Jul 22-23 2026 Day One: The National Center for Science Education has created lessons that are aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to teach about evolution, climate change, and the nature of science. In this ...

Evaluating Sources and Claims About Socioscientific Issues in the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Jul 22-23 2026 The goal of our project and this workshop (https://serc.carleton.edu/mel/index.html) is to promote students' civic and scientific evaluations of sources and alternative claims when confronted with ...

Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences
Jul 20-23 2026 Securing a position and being successful in academia can seem daunting. Further, the universe of academic career options in the geosciences looks overwhelming. The Preparing for an Academic Career in the ...

Designing Activities to Engage Students and Enhance Learning in Quantitatively Challenging Geoscience Content
Jul 20-23 2026 Across the geosciences, math is used to represent physical processes within the Earth system. However, students routinely struggle to make connections between equations and real-world applications; this is often a ...

Fun with Earth and Space Science for All Students!
Jul 20-21 2026 The overall goal of this workshop is to share adaptive teaching strategies in support of different learning modalities in Earth and Space STEM lessons and activities for both K-12 and informal education settings. ...

Unlocking the Potential of your Introductory Geoscience Course
Jul 20-21 2026 Introductory geoscience courses at the undergraduate level have the potential to be profound experiences in which students are engaged actively in scientific practices and critical thinking, deepen their science ...

Beyond the Breaking News: Using land surface hazard data to teach earth systems connections to intro geoscience students
Jul 20-21 2026 Natural hazard case studies engage introductory geoscience students by highlighting the real-world impacts of geoscience knowledge and the societal relevance of developing geoscience skills. Creating introductory ...