Social Studies

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. Activity...

In this activity, students will be able to map the history of a student/campus organization, in which they are involved. In doing so, students will relate the development of their specific organization to the wider trends surrounding civic engagement and...

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...

In Law and American Society, Dr. Terry Aladjem's takes his students to visit a prison following a unit on punishment in order to apply theories of punishment to the real world. Before the trip, students spend about three sessions discussing theories of...

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. Ahead of time, the instructor writes some ventriloquized remarks that reflect what the...

This activity gets students in an active frame of mind at the start of section. If section meets a long time from the last lecture (say, for a Tuesday-Thursday lecture schedule, the relevant section meets on successive Mondays), the instructor can get...