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Science and Cooking Final Project

Pia Sörensen detailed out this month-long procedure for Science and Cooking students' final projects, which involve a report and a presentation on a food science related topic of a student groups' choice.

handout.pdf

Science and Cooking Labs

Pia Sörensen details how the Science of Cooking class conducts lab assignments through actual cooking experiences. For this example, she navigates through the Molten Chocolate Cake Lab/Heat Lab, but also attached three other examples for more resources. This experiment is supposed to help students understand the concepts of science and cooking in a practical setting by actually cooking or baking with the scientific tools and knowledge acquired through class.

transitions.pdf

lab heat transfer.pdf

lab viscosity.pdf

cheese lab.docx

Statistics Video Project

In EMR16, for the midterm and the final project, students have the choose of creating a 2 minute video that explains three statistical concepts to a novice.

Stock Market Game

In past offerings of EM-16: Real-Life Statistics, students virtually invested in the stock market in order to apply statistics concepts.

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Team Web Development Project

Students practice creating a web development project and presenting it to an audience in teams, essential skills in this field.

assignment.docx

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

In this role play, students take on the role of the major players in the drafting and ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Unobtrusive Experiments

In Joshua Greene's course, "Social Psychology," students design and run their own original "unobtrusive experiments" as the final project for the class. Students read and conduct background research to get ideas, write a proposal and refine it with the help of the TF, carry out the research, give a presentation on the research, and write up the results.

syllabus.pdf

slides.pdf

Virtual Communications and the 3D Web

In this assignment designed by J.M. Grenier, Students will be able to explain what is meant by a "virtual world" and the 3D web, as well as discuss the potential for the use of these tools and their impact to existing methods of communication on the web.

Visual Essays and Makeover Parodies

Students in Caroline Light's general education course, Sex and the Citizen, create five-minute visual essays in response to Brenda Weber's, Makeover Nation. In order to do this assignment, students must complete the assigned reading and gain familiarity with iMovie, Prezi, or PowerPoint. These visual essays or makeover parodies are meant to address issues of identity and citizenship central to the course.

instructions.docx

guidelines.docx

Ways of Seeing Art

Students write a response paper on their experience viewing art online versus in the context of a museum.

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Weather Forecasting

The purpose of this assignment is to consolidate knowledge of the weather from class.By making observations and committing to a prediction, it should help you see how weather systems evolve over time. It will also give you a first pass at video making, which will help with the final projects. We ask that you refrain from looking up weather conditions and predictions for the period when you are making observations and predictions. Often local observations will be more accurate than the ones found on website.

... Read more about Weather Forecasting

assignment.pdf

Wine (or Chocolate) Tasting Experiment

In EMR16, students design their own wine or chocolate-tasting experiment in order to use the principles of experimental design and data analysis.

Workshop Conferences

For the third paper of the semester, Jerusha Achterberg has her students do small-group workshops where they read and provide feedback for each other in groups of 2-3.

handout.pdf

World Music YouTube Culture Show

Dr. Michael Heller created this project for a World Music Class for International Students taught at University of Massachusetts, Boston. Students were encouraged to develop traditional academic skills and new media skills in this World Music YouTube Culture Show Project, by incorporating written word, public speaking, and storytelling tools like Zeega, Powerpoint, or Meograph in this project.

midterm presentation.docx

Writing the Methods Section

In her Expos section, Jerusha Achterberg teaches how to clearly describe the methods that will be used in a subsequent paper. This activity was motivated by the fact that students were having trouble writing the methods section in their final paper proposals.

handout.pdf

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Rubric-driven

Science and Cooking Final Project

Pia Sörensen detailed out this month-long procedure for Science and Cooking students' final projects, which involve a report and a presentation on a food science related topic of a student groups' choice.

Science and Cooking Labs

Statistics Video Project

In EMR16, for the midterm and the final project, students have the choose of creating a 2 minute video that explains three statistical concepts to a novice.

Stock Market Game

In past offerings of EM-16: Real-Life Statistics, students virtually invested in the stock market in order to apply statistics concepts.

Team Web Development Project

Students practice creating a web development project and presenting it to an audience in teams, essential skills in this field.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

In this role play, students take on the role of the major players in the drafting and ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Unobtrusive Experiments

Virtual Communications and the 3D Web

In this assignment designed by J.M. Grenier, Students will be able to explain what is meant by a "virtual world" and the 3D web, as well as discuss the potential for the use of these tools and their impact to existing methods of communication on the web.

Visual Essays and Makeover Parodies

Ways of Seeing Art

Students write a response paper on their experience viewing art online versus in the context of a museum.

Weather Forecasting

Wine (or Chocolate) Tasting Experiment

In EMR16, students design their own wine or chocolate-tasting experiment in order to use the principles of experimental design and data analysis.

Workshop Conferences

For the third paper of the semester, Jerusha Achterberg has her students do small-group workshops where they read and provide feedback for each other in groups of 2-3.

World Music YouTube Culture Show

Writing the Methods Section

In her Expos section, Jerusha Achterberg teaches how to clearly describe the methods that will be used in a subsequent paper. This activity was motivated by the fact that students were having trouble writing the methods section in their final paper proposals.

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