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Our Habitable World

Created by Khoa Nguyen, Michal Brylinski, Benjamin Maas, Kristy Stensaas, Suniti Karunatillake, Achim Herrmann, and Wolfgang Kramer, this teachable unit aims to implicitly enable scientific modeling skills among the students. With developing a conceptual model from a set of observations as the underlying goal, variations in atmospheric oxygen content provides context.

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framework.docx

presentation.pptx

Plague Inc. Immunology Lab

Students appreciate how different characteristics of diseases affect their transmission through playing the game Plague Inc.

slides.pdf

lab.pdf

Primitive Navigation - Navigational Stars

This activity was made by John Huth for his Primitive Navigation class, so his students will have practical experience working with primitive navigation tools through this experiment. This activity will help students understand navigational stars.

instructions.docx

Primitive Navigation - Sun Altitude

assignment.docx

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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Protein Function Follows Form: Two-Lesson Activity

Created by Moriah Beck, Masih Shokrani, Karen Koster, William Soto, David McDonald, and David Swanson for the National Academies Northstar Institute for Undergraduate Teaching in Biology, this activity spans 2-3 classes and uses lecture, clicker questions, jigsaws, and group discussions to teach the relationship between protein structure and function.

presentation.pptx

framework.doc

handout.pptx

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.

presentation.pptx

Scatterplots, Correlation and Linear Regression

This worksheet provides scaffolding as students practice new methods concepts.

handout.pdf

handout answers.pdf

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.

transitions.pdf

lab heat transfer.pdf

lab viscosity.pdf

cheese lab.docx

Screencast Practice Problems

Students learn how to solve practice problems in physics through videos created by the instructor using cheap and simple screencast technology.

Section Presentations

In the 2008 offering of Math 154, Professor Paul Bamberg had small weekly sections where students prepared problems from the textbook in advance, which they presented for each other.

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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instructions.pdf

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."

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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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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Problem/Answer

Our Habitable World

Plague Inc. Immunology Lab

Students appreciate how different characteristics of diseases affect their transmission through playing the game Plague Inc.

Primitive Navigation - Navigational Stars

This activity was made by John Huth for his Primitive Navigation class, so his students will have practical experience working with primitive navigation tools through this experiment. This activity will help students understand navigational stars.

Primitive Navigation - Sun Altitude

Probability Games

Protein Function Follows Form: Two-Lesson Activity

Red Light, Green Light: Cell Division and Angelina Jolie

Scatterplots, Correlation and Linear Regression

This worksheet provides scaffolding as students practice new methods concepts.

Science and Cooking Labs

Screencast Practice Problems

Students learn how to solve practice problems in physics through videos created by the instructor using cheap and simple screencast technology.

Section Presentations

In the 2008 offering of Math 154, Professor Paul Bamberg had small weekly sections where students prepared problems from the textbook in advance, which they presented for each other.

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

Shakespeare on Acid: To ionize or not to ionize?

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.

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 appreciate how different characteristics of diseases affect their transmission through playing the game Plague Inc.

This activity was made by John Huth for his Primitive Navigation class, so his students will have practical experience working with primitive navigation tools through this experiment. This activity will help students understand navigational stars.

This worksheet provides scaffolding as students practice new methods concepts.

Students learn how to solve practice problems in physics through videos created by the instructor using cheap and simple screencast technology.

In the 2008 offering of Math 154, Professor Paul Bamberg had small weekly sections where students prepared problems from the textbook in advance, which they presented for each other.

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

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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