In this activity, Jerusha Acterberg has students respond to a scenario where somebody is making a scientific assertion and then use the information from the readings to evaluate that assertion.
Students compare chronologies of different historians of the French Revolution to understand how it has been interpreted and understood by generations of scholars.
In this activity, students suggest possible structures for a molecule, the vote on which ones are correct, and then demonstrate the structure on the board.
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.
Each student is assigned to a country and asked to represent that country's views in a simulated debate to represent the War Guilt Clause negotiations at Versailles.
If killing one person for his organs saves two dying patients in need of organ transplants, it is worth doing? Thought experiments like this can be used during lecture to teach political theory.
This activity asks students to take quotations from authors and pin the tail on the donkey: Which author said what? The discussion that follows can be illuminating.