Systems Theory and Modeling part of SERC Web Resource Collection

From the website: 'This site is for teachers, students, and anyone else who would like a very brief, general introduction to systems thinking and systems modeling. It was written primarily as a ...

History of Energy in the United States: 1635-2000 part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website, from the US Department of Energy, provides a history of energy use in the US from 1635-2000. It includes several figures showing how energy sources and consumption have changed through ...

Overview of Learning And Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Extensive research, development, and testing led to the creation of this statistically valid and reliable tool for the diagnosis of study skills. The LASSI is a 10-scale, 60-item assessment of ...

Motivating Students part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This chapter from the book Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis is a great place to start for ideas and tips about increasing student motivation in your classes. The author presents a handy ...

Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This is the final report of the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University. It provides detailed recommendations for how to link the undergraduate experience at research ...

Learning Domains or Bloom's Taxonomy part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website provides an explanation of Bloom's Taxonomy for the three domains of learning: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. The cognitive domain involves knowledge and the development of ...

GeoPad: Information Technology for Field Science Education and Research part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website provides an overview of the GeoPad project, the software and hardware components of the unit, and a listing of publications, presentations, and case studies. The GeoPad is a TabletPC ...

A Synthesis of Instructional Strategies in Geoscience Education Literature That Address Barriers to Inclusion for Students With Disabilities part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article highlights a collection of literature on the use of strategies to improve equity, accessibility, and inclusivity in field environments, including alternative strategies and virtual ...

Design Considerations for Exam Wrappers part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This Tomorrow's Professor posting looks at the use of exam wrappers as a way to help students improve their performance on exams. Exam wrappers are short activities that direct students to ...

Ten Rules of Good (and Bad) Studying part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This Tomorrow's Professor posting is an excerpt from A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) (2014). It summarizes excellent tips on good (and bad) ...

Learning in the Field: Synthesis of research on thinking and learning in the geosciences part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper begins by addressing practical wisdom that has been drawn from anecdotal reports of learning in the field contributed by geoscience faculty. It then outlines the following attributes of ...

A Model for the Development and Implementation of Field Trips as an Integral Part of the Science Curriculum part of SERC Print Resource Collection
In this paper, Orion summarizes what we know from the literature about designing effective field trips for high school students, including the challenges and barriers to success. The model he ...

How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book is based on the seven 'Theory and Research-based Principles of Learning,' which are used with permission of Carnegie Mellon University's Eberly Center for Teaching Exellence. ...

Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Drawing on contributions by renowned educational researchers, this book 'takes stock' of teaching and learning research in higher education. Core findings include: - There is a relationship ...

Field Geology Education: Historical Perspectives and Modern Approaches part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Field instruction has traditionally been at the core of the geoscience curriculum. The field experience has been integral to the professional development of future geoscientists, and is particularly ...

Causality in Complex Dynamic Systems: A Challenge in Earth Systems Science Education part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper explores the concepts of causality necessary to understand complex system behavior and evolution and simple but important steps in teaching about complexity can support students in ...

The Importance of Understanding the Nature of Science for Accepting Evolution part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Many students reject evolutionary theory, whether or not they adequately understand basic evolutionary concepts. We explore the hypothesis that accepting evolution is related to understanding the ...

Science as Storytelling for Teaching the Nature of Science and the Science-Religion Interface part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Here we describe a method for teaching the NOS called Science as Storytelling, which was designed to directly confront naive realist preconceptions about the NOS and replace them with more ...

Undergraduate Research: Genomics Education Partnership part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The authors describe how they have assessed student learning gains in the nature and process of science by integrating genomic research intro the undergraduate curriculum.

Helping students understand challenging topics in science through ontology training part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Article abstract: Chi (2005) proposed that students experience difficulty in learning about physics concepts such as light, heat, or electric current because they attribute to these concepts an ...