Develop Subject Specific Intuitions

Paper Structure Exercise

When students are in the revision stage of their paper, Jerusha Achterberg uses fruits to teach students how to structure their papers so that the organization coordinates with the thesis. The idea behind this activity is to break the 5 paragraph mold students bring from high school.

handout.pdf

Partnered Armed Conflicts — Cooperation Simulation

Students play the role of one of six entities engaged in a partnered military operation with the primary goal of protecting the civilian population under tight time constraints. Students must cooperate with each other to share intelligence that will help meet military objectives and protect civilians, all in line with international law.

Patient Interviews

One unique feature of SCRB 167, "Stem Cells and Regeneration in the Pathobiology and Treatment of Human Disease," is the use of in-class patient interviews, in which students spend the final hour of a three-hour class asking questions of a live patient about his or her illness and experience.

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Plague Inc. Immunology Lab

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

slides.pdf

lab.pdf

Political Divide Blog Post

In Psychology of the Political Left and Right, Sasha Kimel challenges her students to create a blog post that helps develop their awareness of how the political divide affects one's psychological processes, like behaviors, thoughts, feelings, and more.

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Political Experiments

In EMR 13, "Analyzing Politics," students participate in various type of experiments that appear in the class textbook to give a sense of strategic interactions among students.

instructions.pdf

voting instructions.pdf

Practitioner Speakers

Students learn about Boston, urban life, and social change from guest lectures by local practitioners in the policy, business, and nonprofit sectors.

samples.pdf

Pre-Texts Poetry

In this activity, students appropriate and manipulate the words, grammar and themes of a “classic” work in order to develop their own styles as creative writers. By turning an iconic medium into a popular genre, students learn that classic writers have done the same thing, borrowing and stealing other people’s words.

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Primitive Navigation - Baseline Navigation

John Huth developed this activity for his SPU 26: Primitive Navigation class. The purpose of this assignment is to establish a baseline for their navigational skills. Students navigate Harvard campus to hold a course and estimate a traveled distance to see how successful they will be without any special training.

assignment.pdf

Primitive Navigation - Coordinate System

Students go to the Harvard Chapel and establish a coordinate system of 'easting' and 'northing' using simply their bodies, their environments, and a notepad.

assignment.pdf

Prisoner's Dilemma Game

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

game.doc

classroom games.pdf

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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Propositional "Translations" of Poetry

This close reading activity challenges students to “translate” poetry into propositional statements in order to make students more attentive to the nuances of language.

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

Reactions to Revolution?

How did race, gender, employment, and other characteristics condition people's responses to revolutionary activities during the American Revolution? In this activity, students take on different personas and consider whether they would support a boycott of British goods.

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Develop Subject Specific Intuitions

Paper Structure Exercise

When students are in the revision stage of their paper, Jerusha Achterberg uses fruits to teach students how to structure their papers so that the organization coordinates with the thesis. The idea behind this activity is to break the 5 paragraph mold students bring from high school.

Partnered Armed Conflicts — Cooperation Simulation

Patient Interviews

One unique feature of SCRB 167, "Stem Cells and Regeneration in the Pathobiology and Treatment of Human Disease," is the use of in-class patient interviews, in which students spend the final hour of a three-hour class asking questions of a live patient about his or her illness and experience.

Plague Inc. Immunology Lab

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

Political Divide Blog Post

In Psychology of the Political Left and Right, Sasha Kimel challenges her students to create a blog post that helps develop their awareness of how the political divide affects one's psychological processes, like behaviors, thoughts, feelings, and more.

Political Experiments

In EMR 13, "Analyzing Politics," students participate in various type of experiments that appear in the class textbook to give a sense of strategic interactions among students.

Practitioner Speakers

Students learn about Boston, urban life, and social change from guest lectures by local practitioners in the policy, business, and nonprofit sectors.

Pre-Texts Poetry

Primitive Navigation - Baseline Navigation

Primitive Navigation - Coordinate System

Students go to the Harvard Chapel and establish a coordinate system of 'easting' and 'northing' using simply their bodies, their environments, and a notepad.

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

Propositional "Translations" of Poetry

This close reading activity challenges students to “translate” poetry into propositional statements in order to make students more attentive to the nuances of language.

Protein Function Follows Form: Two-Lesson Activity

Reactions to Revolution?

How did race, gender, employment, and other characteristics condition people's responses to revolutionary activities during the American Revolution? In this activity, students take on different personas and consider whether they would support a boycott of British goods.

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