General Education

Students learn about taxonomic classification by categorizing fictional animal-like forms into species based on their physical features. Goals: to illustrate the process of taxonomic classification to demonstrate that historical approaches to...

Students visit the Old Burial Ground near Harvard Square to learn about early American gravestones and the cultural and artistic traditions that affected them. Goals: Students will learn about the religious purposes and meanings of the visual features and...

Students learn about Boston, urban life, and social change from guest lectures by local practitioners in the policy, business, and nonprofit sectors. Goals: Provide students insights into how individuals shape their urban environment by engaging them in...

In this activity, students read each other's outlines on their final course paper and then met in small groups to give each other constructive feedback. Course: H156 Research Schools Goals 1) To provide students with feedback on their outlines 2) To give...

This activity is designed to assess students’ understanding of the course learning goals by engaging the students in an active, individualistic question and answer session. It provides the instructor with valuable insights about his/her students’ learning...

This reflective activity is designed to provide the instructor with feedback about students’ understanding of course concepts and about their experience with the course. Goals To assess students’ understanding of course concepts and their experience with...

In this activity, students work as a group to create one large conceptual map that includes many or all of the key concepts from the course using large Post-it notes and dry easer markers. Class: HGSE T543: Apply Cognitive Science to Teaching and Learning...

Christina Warinner from the University of Oklahoma uses this interactive cooking activity to expose students to traditional Mesoamerican foods. Students will understand how much labor was necessary to craft these foods during their cultural exploration...

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...

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...