Student groups are each assigned a region experiencing a humanitarian crisis for research. They produce a visual timeline representing the processes precipitating and leading up to the crisis and the relief efforts undertaken in response. As a final project, each group produces an infographic representing a theme or a typology it observes across the different crises explored throughout the timeline exercise.

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Students analyze musical themes from "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", first as a partnered homework assignment, then during a class discussion, and finally on their own as they passed by in the film.

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Students develop skills in critical paper reading by working through a series of active learning exercises. At different stages of the jigsaw activity, students work together to develop an understanding of one piece of the figure, and then teach and learn from each other in a dynamic classroom.... Read more about Paper Figure Jigsaw

Using an interactive quiz as a teaching tool, the teaching team works with small groups of students to solve the quiz.... Read more about Data Systems Interactive Quiz

This activity embeds research, problem solving, and presentation skills to expand prior knowledge on big data.... Read more about Navigating Big Data

This course uses the Harvard case method to work on student's change challenges. ... Read more about The Change Project

This activity equips students with communication skills necessary for impromptu public speaking.... Read more about Impromptu Public Speaking Simulation

Is it possible to teach organizational behavior in a classroom? See how this instructor accomplishes this.... Read more about Organizational Behavior Activity

In this activity, students become members of an achaelogical expedition to Harvard Yard 2000 years in the future.... Read more about Archaeology Expedition

Through this activity, students were challenged to think critically about the rhetoric which drove the events of the Peloponnesian war.... Read more about Micropolitan Dialogue

This in-class activity is part of a public health course that incorporates assessment questions throughout the lecture as an activity-based learning technique.... Read more about Quick Polling for Data Assessments

This exercise requires students to think about the logistics of meal planning and shopping on a SNAP budget, and to imagine the material and emotional realities of poverty.... Read more about Hunger Challenge - Living on SNAP

This term course on education and community in America explores the origins and evolution of students and faculty engagement in their communities, specifically in educational programs from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.... Read more about Community Service & Education

This particular single-class activity got students acquainted with confidence intervals using a simple iPad and the attached handout.... Read more about Complex Stats, Simple Tech

In SCRB 167, students learn about patients’ experience of stem cell-related diseases and therapies through visits from patients and their caregivers.

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