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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.

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Analyzing Andean Artifacts

Each week in "Pathways through the Andes," students examine and discuss 10-15 objects from the collection of the Harvard Peabody Museum.

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Civil War Curiosity Cabinet

In Megan Kate Nelson's course on the American Civil War, students complete a final class project and paper that involves primary document research and public history activities to present history through objects and documents.

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Choose Your Own Fish

In Patterns & Processes in Fish Diversity (OEB 130), Professor George Lauder's students create entries for the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).

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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.

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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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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.

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Student Paper Workshop

In Jerusha Achterberg's first and second Expos workshops of the semester, she chooses two paper drafts from the section and all the other students read and comment on those two papers. The authors also serve as the moderators for each other's discussion.

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Making a Persuasive Adaptive Argument

In this activity, Jerusha Achterberg has her students work in groups to develop persuasive arguments.

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Ancient Novels Sales Pitch

After reading all the novels, students split into groups and "pitch" their favorite novel to the instructor who plays the role of a publisher.

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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.

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Junior Tutorial Workshopping

For Rachel Meyer's junior tutorial on Social Class, students read each other's research proposals before class and then participated in an in-class workshop to discuss each proposal.

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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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Cognitive Mapping of Boston

Students collect cognitive maps of safe and dangerous parts of Boston via street interviews and write research papers on their original findings.

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Botany of Harvard Square

This project has students work in pairs explore the botany of Harvard Square. Students find a plant-related item to research and prepare a an abstract, a presentation, and a written report.

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