SERC

Science Education Resource Center
at Carleton College

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Facilitating Meetings that Foster Equity and Inclusivity

A resource page for early career geoscience educators offering strategies and materials to facilitate equitable, inclusive meetings and workshops, covering preparation, facilitation techniques, scenario practice, mid-meeting interventions, and follow-up actions, developed through NAGT workshops and supported by NSF.

News

• DOI's are now available for SERC pages
  Digital Object Identifiers (DOI's) are now available for content hosted by SERC. They are made available upon request. Simply click the DOI link within the author information, or in the page footer.
• Visible Geology teaching activities
  

  Developed by geoscience faculty, these versatile, single-day teaching activities utilize Seequent's Visible Geology web-based application to strengthen students' spatial reasoning and geological analysis skills. Designed for quick integration into homework, lectures, or labs, they help prepare the next generation for the geoscience workforce.

• Explore, Share, and Connect with Emriver Educational Resources
  

  A new collaboration between Emriver, maker of high-quality hydrologic models and SERC, your go-to source for pedagogical resources, has launched a dynamic new hub to collect, share, and expand teaching materials related to Emriver flumes and stream tables. Check out the Emriver Educational Resources website!

• SERC Authors Co-Lead Study on Widely Adopted, Data-Rich Teaching Resources
  

  Beth Pratt-Sitaula, along with Kristin O'Connell (SERC), Bruce Douglas, Becca Walker, Benjamin Crosby, Ellen Iverson (SERC), and Donna Charlevoix, have published a new paper on the GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues (GETSI) program.

• 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."

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What's New at SERC

CLEAN climate literacy and energy collection

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.

Accelerating Systemic Change Network

he Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) is a network of individuals and institutions, formed with the goal of more quickly advancing STEM education programs. Our unique approach is to bring together those who are researching systemic change at higher education institutions, with those who are making systemic change happen at their individual institutions.

The Math You Need, When You Need It Math Tutorials for Students Majoring in the Earth Sciences

Undergraduate majors in the Earth and environmental sciences also often struggle with effectively applying math in Earth science. This project is developing co-curricular modules to support majors-level students on math concepts relevant to their courses.