Earth Education Project Sites

This set of project websites has been recognized by Teach the Earth as relevant and useful for Earth Educators.


Digital Atlas of Ancient Life
× Visit Digital Atlas of Ancient Life » The Digital Atlas of Ancient Life platform includes resources to help students, teachers, and the wider public identify their fossil discoveries and learn about ...

Virtual Petrography
The Virtual Petrography website is an open educational resource that is geared toward educators who teach introductory to intermediate level courses in optical mineralogy and petrology. This web database of ...

ADVANCEGeo Partnership
The primary goal of the ADVANCEGeo project is to improve work climate conditions by developing bystander intervention workshops for department heads, chairs, faculty and grad students to appropriately respond to and prevent sexual and other types of harassment on campus and in the field as well as include awareness and prevention training of harassment in the teaching of ethical conduct in research.

Teaching GeoEthics Across the Geoscience Curriculum
Ethics Education is an increasingly important component of the pre-professional training of (geo)scientists. Funding agencies (NSF, NIH) require training of graduate students in the responsible conduct of research, employers are increasingly expecting their workers to have basic training in ethics, and the public demands the highest standards of ethical conduct by scientists. Yet, few faculty have the requisite training to effectively teach about ethics in their classes, or even informally in mentoring students working in their labs.

Teaching Geoscience in the Field
Teaching Geoscience in the Field is an exemplary educational resource page offering comprehensive guidance on fieldwork in geoscience education, covering its role in professional development, benefits for student learning, pedagogical strategies for skill development, design principles for effective field experiences, curated field trip descriptions, related workshops, and opportunities for community engagement through contributions and discussion forums. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

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Curriculum for the Bioregion Curriculum Collection
Curriculum for the Bioregion engages faculty communities in exploring the complex issues of sustainability - environmental quality, true community health and wellbeing, and social equity and justice - and in building sustainability concepts and place-based learning into a broad array of courses and disciplines.

Cultural Change in Geoscience (C-ChanGe)
The Cultural Change in Geoscience (C-ChanGe) project works toward a vision of the future where all people at each stage of their career experience academic geoscience as a safe and welcoming environment where they feel empowered to learn and contribute without stifling their identities, and the community recognizes contributions from everyone. SERC leads the professional development of 2 cohorts of faculty change agents empowered to work in their own context to make successive, incremental changes, leading to positive cultural shifts within their home departments with the support of a community of practice made up of local and national peers. The project also raises the visibility of the many other groups working towards an inclusive geoscience discipline through a web-based network to support awareness, recognition, and connectivity of national partner projects working on geoscience cultural change.

Tri-Agency Climate Education Collection
The Tri-Agency Climate Education (TrACE) Catalog is an online directory of climate education projects developed through initiatives funded by NASA, NOAA and NSF.

TIDeS: Teaching with Investigation and Design in Science
Project website for TIDeS (Teaching with Investigation and Design in Science), an NSF-funded initiative aimed at transforming undergraduate science education by promoting inquiry-based learning and engineering design, offering teaching materials, research insights, workshops, and resources for educators and future K–12 teachers. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Tri-Agency Climate Education Collection
The Tri-Agency Climate Education (TrACE) Catalog is an online directory of climate education projects developed through initiatives funded by NASA, NOAA and NSF.

Unlearning Racism in Geoscience
Project URGE (Unlearning Racism in Geoscience) is a community-driven initiative providing antiracism resources and strategies for geoscience educators, focusing on actionable practices like developing codes of conduct and using demographic data to foster equity, inclusion, and systemic change within academic programs. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Compass: Advancing Earth Education Resource Discovery
The Compass project page outlines an initiative to enhance discovery of high-quality Earth education resources by improving SERC's infrastructure, understanding educator search behaviors, and expanding access to partner-hosted materials, featuring updates on DEIJ resources, accessibility, navigation tools, and activity classification. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

CLEAN - a Collection of Climate and Energy Education Resources
Homepage for the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN), featuring a curated collection of free, high-quality, peer-reviewed educational resources, teaching guidance, professional development tools, and community engagement opportunities focused on climate and energy education across K-12 and higher education, aligned with NGSS standards. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Disseminating access, understanding, and innovation in the use of augmented and virtual reality for earth science education
The goal of Teaching with Augmented and Virtual Reality (TAVR) is to enhance the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in earth science education. Virtual reality presents a new opportunity for engaging students in geoscience field experiences, which are known to support student learning. TAVR aims to develop best practices for integrating VR into geoscience education and to support adoption of those practices in college classrooms.

Supporting and Advancing Geoscience Education in Two-Year Colleges
Project page for SAGE 2YC, an NAGT Exemplary Site offering resources for two-year college geoscience faculty on student support, professional development, institutional change, workshops, and inclusive STEM education practices.

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Geo-Needs: Stakeholder Needs Assessment for Broadening Participation in the Geoscience Workforce
Project webpage for Geo-Needs, an NSF-funded initiative assessing stakeholder needs to broaden participation in the geoscience workforce, with focus on underrepresented students at two-year and minority-serving institutions, featuring an ideal model, workforce pathways, and strategies for institutional change. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

About the EDDIE: Earth and Ecosystems Project
Project EDDIE: Earth and Ecosystems is an educational initiative developing data-driven, flexible curricular modules using large public datasets to enhance undergraduate quantitative reasoning in environmental and Earth sciences, supported by NSF and focused on research, assessment, and professional development. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Building Strong Geoscience Departments
A project website offering resources and strategies for strengthening geoscience departments through workshops, strategic planning, degree program design, faculty recruitment, student diversity initiatives, and professional preparation, developed by NAGT as part of the On the Cutting Edge program. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

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Visionlearning
Visionlearning is a content page within the Teach the Earth portal that curates high-quality, freely accessible STEM educational resources for introductory undergraduate instruction, featuring modular readings on Earth science, the nature of science, scientist profiles, and math concepts, each supplemented with interactive quizzes, audio, and animations, and organized around key themes like plate tectonics and introductory geoscience. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Teaching in the Field
This collection of teaching resources, contributed by mebers of NAGT, features information about field trips organized for a variety of purposes across the country. The collection aims to share information about the design of various kinds of field trips as well as to provide easy access to field guides.

Geophysics Tools for Societal Issues
Project website for GETSI (GEophysics Tools for Societal Issues), providing open-access undergraduate teaching modules that integrate geophysical data analysis into instruction on natural hazards, climate change, environmental management, and urban planning, with materials categorized by introductory, majors, and field collection levels. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Science for Non-Scientists
This 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.

DIG Texas Instructional Blueprints for Teaching Earth and Space Science
DIG Texas is creating five online course road maps, or blueprints, for use in high school Earth and Space Science classes. A blueprint documents what to teach, in what order, for how long, and identifies which online resources to use of the thousands available.

Teaching Nanotechnology Across the Undergraduate STEM Curriculum
This site provide guidance on introducing Nanotechnology across the STEM curriculum. It includes resources for both educators and students getting up to speed with the advances in this new field.

UTD Geoscience Studios Youtube channel
A content page promoting the UTD Geoscience Studios YouTube channel, featuring educational animations and videos on geoscientific processes, departmental activities, and public outreach, aligned with teaching themes like visualization, data, simulations, and video-based instruction for audiences from middle school to higher education. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Mud Ed
Mud Ed is a content page and educational resource hub focused on limnology and paleolimnology outreach, offering shareable lesson plans and activities for K-16 audiences, particularly targeting scientists seeking to enhance science communication and engagement in informal and formal educational settings. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Strengthening Engagement between Disciplinary Societies and Community Colleges
Project website detailing NSF-funded workshops that foster collaboration between disciplinary societies and community colleges to enhance faculty engagement, professional development, and diversity in undergraduate STEM education through cross-disciplinary partnerships and evidence-based strategies. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

EarthScope ANGLE
Through a grant from the EarthScope Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF), ANGLE offers educator professional development workshops and helps teach student academies for the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP). EarthScope ANGLE contributes to increasing Alaskan resilience to geohazards through education and the development of an action-oriented statewide learning community.

ADVANCEGeo Partnership
The primary goal of the ADVANCEGeo project is to improve work climate conditions by developing bystander intervention workshops for department heads, chairs, faculty and grad students to appropriately respond to and prevent sexual and other types of harassment on campus and in the field as well as include awareness and prevention training of harassment in the teaching of ethical conduct in research.

Web-based Interactive Landform Simulation Model-Grand Canyon
Project page for WILSIM-GC, an interactive web-based simulation tool that models Grand Canyon formation, offering educational resources, teaching activities, and research on landscape evolution for undergraduate geoscience education. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.