Pair and Share

Navigating Difficult Situations as a Supervisor

Oftentimes there are challenging situations that arise in supervisory relationships. This activity has students work in small groups to develop strategies to handle such situations.

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Neurobiology Family Feud

In section for MCB 80, "Neurobiology of Behavior," students play a game similar to Family Feud to review material discussed in lecture.

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Normative Models of Citizenship

This easy "Do Now" gets students engaged from the moment they enter the classroom.

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Parisian Narratives in Virtual Reality

Students engage in cultural and linguistic immersion through virtual reality (VR) film narratives in a beginner’s French class.

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discussion.docx

Peer-to-Peer Outline Feedback

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.

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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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liars dice.docx

risk management.docx

three dice.docx

the art of war.docx

Quick Critical Thinking

Once a month, David Weimer uses critical-thinking prompts in section that students respond to via quick write or partner discussion.

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Red Light, Green Light: Cell Division and Angelina Jolie

Created by Paul Ogg, Melissa Krebs, Vida Melvin, Amanda Charlesworth, and Melanie Badtke, this lesson teaches how cells regulate cell division using some lecture interspersed with interactive activities including clicker questions, pair/share, and class discussion, applying concepts to Angelina Jolie's BRCA1 mutation.

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presentation.pptx

Refreshers

This activity gets students in an active frame of mind at the start of section.

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Science and Cooking Labs

Pia Sörensen details how the Science of Cooking class conducts lab assignments through actual cooking experiences. For this example, she navigates through the Molten Chocolate Cake Lab/Heat Lab, but also attached three other examples for more resources. This experiment is supposed to help students understand the concepts of science and cooking in a practical setting by actually cooking or baking with the scientific tools and knowledge acquired through class.

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transitions.pdf

lab heat transfer.pdf

lab viscosity.pdf

cheese lab.docx

Segregation Academies Jigsaw

In this activity, David Weimer used different articles on "segregation academies" following Brown v. Board of Education in order to teach students how to evaluate information from a source and consider the origin of the information.

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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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presentation.pptx

Statistical Sampling Case Study

To learn about sampling techniques in social science research, students practice tackling a real-world research problem through discussing a hypothetical case.

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Test Review on the Move

To prepare students for an exam, the teacher sets up essay questions on posters around the room for students to review. The movement helps keep energy up at the end of the semester.

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The Candy Weighing Demonstration or The Unwisdom of Crowds

This activity uses a bag of differently-sized candies to get at the concept of bias in sampling.

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