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Science Education Resource Center
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How To Teach GeoEthics

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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• 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.

• 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."

• 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.

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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!

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.

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.