SERC

Science Education Resource Center
at Carleton College

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What are On-Ramps?

"On-Ramps" are quick-start guides designed to help faculty actively engage students in geoscience classrooms through various teaching strategies.

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• Workshop: Developing Activities for Flumes and Stream Tables
  

  This 2-session virtual workshop, sponsored by the Emriver Educational Resources project, will focus on helping educators develop ideas for teaching with flumes and stream tables into implementable teaching activities.

• Revamped For Higher Ed Portal
  SERC's For Higher Ed portal has been updated and refreshed with new resources from across the SERC portfolio! The portal provides faculty, department chairs, and others with direct access to resources to improve teaching practice and strengthen programs and systems.
• Workshop for Heads and Chairs at AGU
  

  This one-day workshop provides an opportunity for leaders of geoscience departments to come together to learn, share, and build community to collectively strengthen geoscience programs and departments.

• SERC Spotlight
  

  Ellen Iverson, director, and Kristin O'Connell, evaluation/education associate, co-authored a paper with colleagues titled, "Building Institutional Capacity for Research Impacts: The ARIS ORIC Program," in Research Management Review.

  
  Congratulations to Ellen, Kristin, and their co-authors on this outstanding achievement!

• 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.

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What's New at SERC

Cutting Edge Exemplary Collection

The Exemplary Collection showcases the best online teaching activities relevant to Earth educators as scored by peer review. The collection continues to grow as new activities are submitted and reviewed so check back regularly!

GP-IMPACT: Expanding HBCU Pathways for Geoscience Education

Program profiles for STEM teacher preparation illuminate the goals, strengths, and successes of the participating institutions in increasing the ability of future teachers to teach geoscience content in K12 classrooms and provide key recommendations to support other HBCUs.

BASICS - Business and Science: Integrated Curriculum for Sustainability

Business And Science: Integrated Curriculum for Sustainability (BASICS) has developed transdisciplinary curriculum modules for undergraduate students that combine STEM and business and focus on the wicked problems of sustainability in a global economy.