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."

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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Sounding China

This was a semester long project. Throughout the semester, graduate students (many of whom had little previous exposure to the course material) studied the history of Chinese music theory, the Jesuit missionaries who transmitted it back to western Europe, and the reception of Chinese culture there in the 18th century.

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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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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.

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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Student Film Guides

The Art of Film had a semester-long discussion structure that got students actively involved in shaping the direction of section.

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Student Paper Workshop

In Jerusha Achterberg's first and second Expos workshops of the semester, she chooses two paper drafts from the section and all the other students read and comment on those two papers. The authors also serve as the moderators for each other's discussion.

handout.pdf

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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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.

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.

The Galileo Debate

In this simulation, students become familiar with the arguments used by different players in the debates about Galileo.

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The Problem of Scale in Evolution

Created by Jillian Banks, Jeremy Brown, Cindy Gordon, Chris Gregg, Travis Marsico, Chris Osovitz, and Rebecca Symula, this activity focuses on the importance of temporal scale and specifically seeks to resolve the common student misconception that evolutionary change is only observable on a single timescale. It utilizes index cards in an interactive jigsaw.

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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.

Shakespeare on Acid: To ionize or not to ionize?

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.

Sounding China

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.

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.

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.

Student Film Guides

The Art of Film had a semester-long discussion structure that got students actively involved in shaping the direction of section.

Student Paper Workshop

In Jerusha Achterberg's first and second Expos workshops of the semester, she chooses two paper drafts from the section and all the other students read and comment on those two papers. The authors also serve as the moderators for each other's discussion.

Team Web Development Project

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

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.

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.

The Galileo Debate

In this simulation, students become familiar with the arguments used by different players in the debates about Galileo.

The Problem of Scale in Evolution

The Sound and the Fury

In this activity, students analyze Faulkner's various styles in the Sound and the Fury by contrasting different excerpts from the novel.

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