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How To Teach GeoEthics

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This content page from the Teach the Earth portal offers comprehensive guidance on teaching geoethics in geoscience education, covering instructional strategies like case studies and role-playing, ethical decision-making frameworks, assessment methods, mentoring, and curricular examples such as the Geo-Equity Modules that integrate environmental justice and societal issues.

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• Apply for the October 2026 Teaching Computation with MATLAB Educator Workshop
  

  Educators in Engineering, Math, Geoscience, Physics, Biology, Chemistry and more are invited to apply to participate in this engaging 3-day workshop, taking place October 25-27, 2026, in Northfield, MN, where you'll learn how to integrate MATLAB teaching tools and code into material presentation and asynchronous student learning. Learn more about the workshop and apply by June 15!

• New The Math You Need - Majors publication in Education Sciences
  

  SERC congratulates SERC Science Education Associate Rory McFadden and colleagues Michael Coe, Beth Pratt-Sitaula, and Eric Baer on a recent article they co-authored in Education Sciences entitled "Geoscience Mathematics Self-Efficacy Scale (GeoMSES) for Majors-Level Undergraduates: Psychometric Data."

• Building Leadership Capacity to Support Two-Year College and Disciplinary Society Collaborations workshop report is published
  

  The final workshop report from the Building Leadership Capacity to Support Two-Year College and Disciplinary Society Collaborations workshop (which took place throughout spring and fall 2025) is now published.

• New Polar Literacy Publication in Journal of Geoscience Education
  

  SERC congratulates SERC Director Ellen Iverson and former SERC evaluation specialist Ellen Altermatt on a recent article they co-authored with colleagues from Rutgers in the Journal of Geoscience Education entitled, "Data to the Rescue: Penguins Need Our Help! – An informal STEM learning program."

• Explore the Workshop Program and Submit Your Abstract for the Rendezvous
  

  Registration and abstract submissions are now open for the eleventh Earth Educators' Rendezvous, taking place July 20-23, 2026, at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina!

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What's New at SERC

CLEAN climate literacy and energy collection

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The CLEAN site includes more than 850 ready-to-use resources that have been reviewed by educators and scientists for elementary, secondary and higher education settings.

Teaching Computation Using MATLAB exemplary activity collection

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This year, Teaching Computation Using MATLAB community members continued the peer review of MATLAB based teaching activities. Explore the exemplary collection and consider submitting your own MATLAB teaching activity for the next round of peer review.

EvaluateUR Methods

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The EvaluateUR Method provides an online guided evaluation process designed for programs that support research experiences for undergraduates, CUREs, and team competitions.