Elevator Pitch Paper Workshop

Students present an “elevator pitch” of their paper idea to their peers, and then receive feedback about their idea.

elevator pitch.pdf

Explaining Political Attitudes

Assigned debates work well for weeks where several competing theoretical approaches are covered. This debate involves competing theories on approaches to explaining political attitudes.

Exploring Correlation Data on Popular Websites

Professor Nathan Kaplan uses popular websites and online data to generate discussion about the topic of correlation in his math gen ed, "Fat Chance." According to Kaplan, the purpose of the activity is to show students that correlations are everywhere, even in movie rentals, library cards, etc., and part of the era of big data is that companies will know lots of things about people even if they don't tell them.

Exploring Medieval Chinese Religions

In this activity, students discuss three religious traditions of medieval China to consolidate knowledge and bring out the similarities and contrasts.

Final Exam Quick Write

In this activity, students will be able to reflect on their experiences throughout the semester, and respond to a short prompt before their final exam.

Floor Plan

This is an activity for Lioudmila Zaitseva's Elementary Russian class. She goes through a floor plan illustration on the board and calls on volunteers to label the parts, then place a corresponding image in the specific zone of the plan. This is a fun way for students to remember their vocabulary, basic verbs, and basically conduct a general review.

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Foreign Language Dialogue - Four Days in September

Students watch an excerpt of a foreign language film without sound and work in groups to craft a sample dialogue utilizing new vocabulary and grammar concepts.

German Language Puppet Show

The instructor in a beginning German class wrote and filmed a puppet show for the class, who then created their own puppet shows using the vocabulary they had learned. This exercise fostered comprehension and decreased students’ inhibitions about speaking in public.

exercises.pdf

vocab.pdf

Globe Toss Icebreaker

For the STAT104 first class of the semester, Lecturer Michael Parzen throws an inflatable globe of the world into the class audience to get the class excited about learning future topics of experimentation, randomness, and estimation.

Group Problem Solving

Students work in groups to answer problem set questions in section and then discuss the answers with the class.

Habitable Zones Near and Far

In this assignment students will be required to investigate properties of habitable zones throughout a galaxy. Using their knowledge, they will uncover how planets relate to their central star.

worksheet.pdf

Hemingway Parody

Let your students be Hemingway for a day. In this parody exercise, students learn Hemingway's style by adopting it.

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High Brow, Low Brow

This exercise has students explore the postwar notions of high brow and low brow by ranking and discussing various cultural items.

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HMS/BWH Case Study

For her sixth section, Kirstin Woody Scott prepared this activity based off of the HMS/BWH case study on Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee and tuberculosis. This activity allowed students to discuss and present the knowledge of the case they had reviewed in lecture and tackle policy realities in global health. Students prepared oral arguments to take on the role of different stakeholders and defend their positions when faced with cuts to global health funding.

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How to Become a Sage

Students prepared for this assignment by reading the week’s reading assignment about the Chinese philosopher Xunzi in the class textbook. This lesson is inspired by Oprah Winfrey's Lifeclass TV show.

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Elevator Pitch Paper Workshop

Students present an “elevator pitch” of their paper idea to their peers, and then receive feedback about their idea.

Explaining Political Attitudes

Assigned debates work well for weeks where several competing theoretical approaches are covered. This debate involves competing theories on approaches to explaining political attitudes.

Exploring Correlation Data on Popular Websites

Exploring Medieval Chinese Religions

In this activity, students discuss three religious traditions of medieval China to consolidate knowledge and bring out the similarities and contrasts.

Final Exam Quick Write

In this activity, students will be able to reflect on their experiences throughout the semester, and respond to a short prompt before their final exam.

Floor Plan

Foreign Language Dialogue - Four Days in September

Students watch an excerpt of a foreign language film without sound and work in groups to craft a sample dialogue utilizing new vocabulary and grammar concepts.

German Language Puppet Show

The instructor in a beginning German class wrote and filmed a puppet show for the class, who then created their own puppet shows using the vocabulary they had learned. This exercise fostered comprehension and decreased students’ inhibitions about speaking in public.

Globe Toss Icebreaker

For the STAT104 first class of the semester, Lecturer Michael Parzen throws an inflatable globe of the world into the class audience to get the class excited about learning future topics of experimentation, randomness, and estimation.

Group Problem Solving

Students work in groups to answer problem set questions in section and then discuss the answers with the class.

Habitable Zones Near and Far

In this assignment students will be required to investigate properties of habitable zones throughout a galaxy. Using their knowledge, they will uncover how planets relate to their central star.

Hemingway Parody

Let your students be Hemingway for a day. In this parody exercise, students learn Hemingway's style by adopting it.

High Brow, Low Brow

This exercise has students explore the postwar notions of high brow and low brow by ranking and discussing various cultural items.

HMS/BWH Case Study

How to Become a Sage

Students prepared for this assignment by reading the week’s reading assignment about the Chinese philosopher Xunzi in the class textbook. This lesson is inspired by Oprah Winfrey's Lifeclass TV show.

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