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In order to ensure high quality teaching resources, connected to transformative geoscience research, are brought into broad and diverse use, we are advancing Earth education resource discovery through the Compass project. Compass's set of approaches to this challenge offer opportunities for EarthCube allied projects, current and future, to increase the reach of their work across the community of educators. The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) hosts materials from over 120 geoscience education projects and is currently engaged, through the Compass project, in increasing the impact of these Earth education materials. A central element of Compass is improving discoverability of resources for the 5 million visitors who explore SERC-hosted sites each year. Compass is developing new partnering mechanisms that will allow SERC visitors to find high-quality external materials (hosted outside SERC) as they interact with SERC search and discovery tools. For EarthCube projects that host their own educational resources this could provide a new route to a broader audience. For projects still exploring how they might achieve broader impacts for their science by reaching educators Compass offers a number of new supporting tools and processes. Contributions of individual teaching activities through SERC's Teach the Earth site can now be categorized and discovered based on a new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice controlled vocabulary. This vocabulary also allows easy access to a rich set of guidance around these issues. Similarly, a new set of guidelines and supporting tools are available to improve accessibility as it plays out in Earth education teaching resources. This new content joins wide array of models and practices reflected across SERC's work in helping the community connect current, data-rich science to the classroom. |
