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Prisoner's Dilemma Game

Is it better to cooperate or defect? In this game, students participate in a real life prisoner's dilemma game.

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Probability Games

In Nathan Kaplan's general education course EMR 14, "Fat Chance," students play games to connect the probability concepts learned in lecture to some fun activities that the students are familiar with. On some broader level, the goal is to see that probability is at work in lots of situations outside of the somewhat artificial classroom setting.

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Reasoning to the Best Conclusion

Students are asked to write down a weird or random fact about themselves on a sticky note and to pass it to the person to their left. Each student is then asked to brainstorm logically possible explanations of the fact he or she has received. Through this activity, students learn to distinguish the best or most likely explanations from all the logically possible ones.

Selectorate-Electorate Game

In-class interactive game between students playing a modification of the "selectorate-electorate" game. This game has a leader distributing private and public benefits, and others voting.
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Spanish Sayings

For Andrew Gray's intermediate Spanish course, students complete an activity using Spanish sayings to improve knowledge of the language and popular oral culture.

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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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The Beauty Contest

John Maynard Keynes classic "Beauty Contest" had people choose from a set of faces which they thought would be considered the six most beautiful. Winners were chosen from those who chose the most popular face. This easy task replicates the experiment with a simple numbers game.

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The Spectrum Game

Students compare and contrast different philosophers they have read in the course by locating them a spectrum based on various criteria.

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Voting for Molecular Structures

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.

Whiteboard Exam Review Session

Students are actively engaged in reviewing for an exam by a PowerPoint of quiz questions that they respond to on individual dry erase board.

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Why We Trade

In Syon Bhanot's section of Ec 10, students play a game to understand comparative advantage and the benefits of trade.

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Game

Prisoner's Dilemma Game

Is it better to cooperate or defect? In this game, students participate in a real life prisoner's dilemma game.

Probability Games

Reasoning to the Best Conclusion

Selectorate-Electorate Game

In-class interactive game between students playing a modification of the "selectorate-electorate" game. This game has a leader distributing private and public benefits, and others voting.
... Read more about Selectorate-Electorate Game

Spanish Sayings

For Andrew Gray's intermediate Spanish course, students complete an activity using Spanish sayings to improve knowledge of the language and popular oral culture.

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.

The Beauty Contest

John Maynard Keynes classic "Beauty Contest" had people choose from a set of faces which they thought would be considered the six most beautiful. Winners were chosen from those who chose the most popular face. This easy task replicates the experiment with a simple numbers game.

The Spectrum Game

Students compare and contrast different philosophers they have read in the course by locating them a spectrum based on various criteria.

Voting for Molecular Structures

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.

Whiteboard Exam Review Session

Students are actively engaged in reviewing for an exam by a PowerPoint of quiz questions that they respond to on individual dry erase board.

Why We Trade

In Syon Bhanot's section of Ec 10, students play a game to understand comparative advantage and the benefits of trade.

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Is it better to cooperate or defect? In this game, students participate in a real life prisoner's dilemma game.

In-class interactive game between students playing a modification of the "selectorate-electorate" game. This game has a leader distributing private and public benefits, and others voting.... Read more about Selectorate-Electorate Game

For Andrew Gray's intermediate Spanish course, students complete an activity using Spanish sayings to improve knowledge of the language and popular oral culture.

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

John Maynard Keynes classic "Beauty Contest" had people choose from a set of faces which they thought would be considered the six most beautiful. Winners were chosen from those who chose the most popular face. This easy task replicates the experiment with a simple numbers game.

Students compare and contrast different philosophers they have read in the course by locating them a spectrum based on various criteria.

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.

Students are actively engaged in reviewing for an exam by a PowerPoint of quiz questions that they respond to on individual dry erase board.

In Syon Bhanot's section of Ec 10, students play a game to understand comparative advantage and the benefits of trade.

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Learning Objective

Length of Activity

In-class interactive game between students playing a modification of the "selectorate-electorate" game. This game has a leader distributing private and public benefits, and others voting.
... Read more about Selectorate-Electorate Game