SERC News
This page aggregates the news and highlights from all the projects that SERC is a part of. Be sure to check back often!
Teach the Earth
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Hide- Chronos Workshop: Developing Web-based Activities for Teaching Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Geology, June 13-15, 2006, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- Reconsidering the Textbook: There is now a preliminary summary available for this recent workshop.
- Sustainability Workshop Cows, Colleges, and Curriculum, June 19-20, 2006 (with a follow-up August 28, 2006), St. Olaf College College, Northfield, MN
- Award Winning Paper!
"Influencing user behavior through digital library design: An example from the geosciences (more info) " chosen as the winner of the Best Paper Award for 2006 by the Best Paper Award Committee of the Geoscience Information Society. (See all SERC publications.) - Safety in the Field: This new section of the NAGT Teaching in the Field website discusses issues of safety and liability that faculty need to think about before taking students into the field.
- New Book: Earth and Mind: How Geologists Think and Learn about the Earth
Edited by Cathryn Manduca and David Mogk, this volume brings together essays by geoscientists, cognitive scientists, and educators that explore how expert geoscientists learn about the Earth and the implications for student learning.
On the Cutting Edge
- Application Deadline for Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences workshop extended until March 31, 2007
- Upcoming Cutting Edge workshop application deadlines: Early Career Faculty and Preparing for an Academic Career - March 15, 2007
- The module on using the affective domain now includes a browseable collection of affective dilemmas and potential solutions.
- New Module on the Affective Domain
- Application Deadline for Affective Domain workshop moved back to December 11, 2006.
- 2006-2007 Workshop Schedule Released!
- New Google Earth Tool Tutorial under Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations.
- New Visualization Collections: Floods, Volcanos
- Check out the Online Course design Tutorial. This is a web-only version of the popular workshop.
- New 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Visualization Collection: We have collected links to some great animations, maps, film, and photos of the quake, the fire, and their aftermath. Check out these great visualizations for use in your classes.
- New Visualization Collections: Wetland Processes, Tornados, Wildfires, and Orogeny
- Evolving Themes, Enduring Impact (Acrobat (PDF) 335kB Apr25 06): This is a fourth-year report of outcomes from the On the Cutting Edge Project.
- On the Cutting Edge featured in April 2007 issue of Elements Magazine . PIs Manduca and Mogk, along with other workshop leaders and participants wrote articles discussing the new trends and directions in teaching mineralogy, petrology, and geochemistry in the 21st century.
Starting Point
- Visit the new Starting Point module on teaching with Experience-Based Environmental Projects, which features the Lifestyle Project. This three-week project challenges students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles.
- Starting Point module on Studio Teaching is now available.
Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences
- Infusing Quantitative Literacy into Introductory Geoscience Courses, June 26-28, 2006, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
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Integrating Research and Education
- New resource about Coal Bed Methane and the Crow Reservation in the series of websites about Natural Resource Development on Native American Lands.
Building Strong Geoscience Departments
2006 GSA Sessions
Building New and Rebuilding Defunct College and University Geoscience Programs for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities, Successes and Failures (Topical Session T49)
Successful Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Undergraduate Geoscience Majors (Topical Session T56)
- Recruitment and Retention of Students, Faculty, and Staff: Departmental Strategies That Work/Building Strong Geoscience Departments: Challenges, Opportunities, and Successes (Oral Session, Poster Session)
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
San Francisco, CA, 5-9 December 2005 - Global Geoscience Education and Outreach: Building Capacity for a Mobile, Global Scientific Workforce (Oral Session, Poster Session)
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
San Francisco, CA, 5-9 December 2005
2006 AGU Sessions
Using Data in the Classroom
- The first wave of examples in the new DataSheet format has been released in Using Data in the Classroom. DataSheets present a bridging structure between the raw data set that is available on the web and their educational use. DataSheets lay out how to use the dataset and its relation to curricular concerns.
Microbial Life Educational Resources
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