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Name Five

Kellie Carter Jackson, a Harvard College Fellow, created the game “Name Five” for her AAAS118 class. In the beginning of the class, she goes around the room and asks students to list five notable people of different ethnicities to help students understand the world and the power dynamics within it.

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Globe Toss Icebreaker

For the STAT104 first class of the semester, Lecturer Michael Parzen throws an inflatable globe of the world into the class audience to get the class excited about learning future topics of experimentation, randomness, and estimation.

Credit Score Opener

In EC970, Household and Consumer Finance, Robert Turley started class with a real-life activity - an examination of an actual credit score.

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"Just in Time" Response Papers

Students submit response papers immediately prior to attending class with the goal of increased preparedness for discussion.

Propositional "Translations" of Poetry

This close reading activity challenges students to “translate” poetry into propositional statements in order to make students more attentive to the nuances of language.

Quick Critical Thinking

Once a month, David Weimer uses critical-thinking prompts in section that students respond to via quick write or partner discussion.

Pre-Texts Poetry

In this activity, students appropriate and manipulate the words, grammar and themes of a “classic” work in order to develop their own styles as creative writers. By turning an iconic medium into a popular genre, students learn that classic writers have done the same thing, borrowing and stealing other people’s words.

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Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science

This course teaches students the skill and process of solving problems in discrete mathematics through active participation in every class.

Paper Structure Exercise

When students are in the revision stage of their paper, Jerusha Achterberg uses fruits to teach students how to structure their papers so that the organization coordinates with the thesis. The idea behind this activity is to break the 5 paragraph mold students bring from high school.

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Koosh Warm-up

In Ursula Lindqvist's Swedish classes, she has the students "warm-up" by doing an exercise that gets everybody talking immediately.

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Kepler Lightcurve Data

In this activity students work together in groups or as individuals on computers to understand how we can use photometric observations of stars to discover exoplanets.

Refreshers

This activity gets students in an active frame of mind at the start of section.

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Blitz Thesis

Students respond to a quote by formulating for and against the position on the spot.

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The Sound and the Fury

In this activity, students analyze Faulkner's various styles in the Sound and the Fury by contrasting different excerpts from the novel.

Normative Models of Citizenship

This easy "Do Now" gets students engaged from the moment they enter the classroom.

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Name Five

Globe Toss Icebreaker

For the STAT104 first class of the semester, Lecturer Michael Parzen throws an inflatable globe of the world into the class audience to get the class excited about learning future topics of experimentation, randomness, and estimation.

Credit Score Opener

In EC970, Household and Consumer Finance, Robert Turley started class with a real-life activity - an examination of an actual credit score.

"Just in Time" Response Papers

Students submit response papers immediately prior to attending class with the goal of increased preparedness for discussion.

Propositional "Translations" of Poetry

This close reading activity challenges students to “translate” poetry into propositional statements in order to make students more attentive to the nuances of language.

Quick Critical Thinking

Once a month, David Weimer uses critical-thinking prompts in section that students respond to via quick write or partner discussion.

Pre-Texts Poetry

Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science

This course teaches students the skill and process of solving problems in discrete mathematics through active participation in every class.

Paper Structure Exercise

When students are in the revision stage of their paper, Jerusha Achterberg uses fruits to teach students how to structure their papers so that the organization coordinates with the thesis. The idea behind this activity is to break the 5 paragraph mold students bring from high school.

Koosh Warm-up

In Ursula Lindqvist's Swedish classes, she has the students "warm-up" by doing an exercise that gets everybody talking immediately.

Kepler Lightcurve Data

In this activity students work together in groups or as individuals on computers to understand how we can use photometric observations of stars to discover exoplanets.

Refreshers

This activity gets students in an active frame of mind at the start of section.

Blitz Thesis

Students respond to a quote by formulating for and against the position on the spot.

The Sound and the Fury

In this activity, students analyze Faulkner's various styles in the Sound and the Fury by contrasting different excerpts from the novel.

Normative Models of Citizenship

This easy "Do Now" gets students engaged from the moment they enter the classroom.

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