Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)

Shakespeare on Acid: To ionize or not to ionize?

This lesson, created by Graciela Unguez, Erika Abel, Vanessa Castleberry, Rizalia Klausmeyer, Aaron Snead, Martina Rosenberg, William S. Garver, and Marcy Osgood for the National Academies Summer Institute for Undergraduate Education in Biology uses clickers, pair and share, and other exercises to help students "understand the effect of environmental pH on the ionization status of weak acids and weak bases."

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Should Human Genes Be Patentable?

In this activity, students will have an opportunity to debate current controversial issues in biotechnology from the point of view of a stakeholder group.

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Simulated Investment in Genome Editing Technology

In this simulation activity, students decide which of two companies, each using a different CRISPR genome-editing technology, to invest in. They engage with research on CRISPR genome editing to understand how unintended consequences of one technology used for this editing had real-world business implications. The storytelling element adds immediacy to the activity, making it imaginative and engaging, and students are pushed toward achieving higher levels of competence within Bloom’s taxonomy for the subject area.

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Specialized Topics in Physics

About every other week, Greg Kestin held a special optional session for Physics 16, which focused on specialized topics that students wanted to learn.

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Statistics Mini-Assignments

In EMR16 and Stat139, students periodically do very brief "mini-assignments" which require them to submit or consider something that the instructor incorporates into lecture.

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Statistics Twitter Account

Professor Joe Blitzstein uses Twitter to share articles and other tidbits with his students in Statistics 110.

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Statistics Video Project

In EMR16, for the midterm and the final project, students have the choose of creating a 2 minute video that explains three statistical concepts to a novice.

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Steroids and Cloning

Should anabolic steroids remain banned? What about research cloning? In this activity, students work on constructing clear argumentative moral arguments using bioethical prompts.

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Stock Market Game

In past offerings of EM-16: Real-Life Statistics, students virtually invested in the stock market in order to apply statistics concepts.

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Strategic Practice Problems

In Statistics 110, Professor Joe Blitzstein provides students "strategic practice problems," arranged by topic which help then do the problem set.

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Students Explaining Math Problems

Alexander Isakov, a graduate student in physics, has his students explain in class how to do crucial steps of math problems for Math 21a.

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Teaching and Communicating Physics

In Jacob Barandes' Physics 302, students are driven to learn how to teach and communicate physics by giving small, mini-lessons throughout the semester. They are then driven to perform a longer lesson as a final project to show what they have learned during the term.

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Teaching Statistics with Modules

EMR16: Real-Life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery) is taught around real-life modules, and all major assignments apply statistical topics directly to the real-life topics.

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Team Web Development Project

Students practice creating a web development project and presenting it to an audience in teams, essential skills in this field.

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Thalidomide: The Pros and Cons

This case study, contributed by the Cornell Center for Teaching Excellence, is intended to show that two enantiomers can have different effects on the body, and how the same drug can be used to treat different diseases or symptoms. It is also intended to help students begin to understand the process of FDA approval for drugs. This problem could be used in an organic chemistry class or in a class for non-science majors.

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