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Learning Grammar through Lyrics

Learning through Case Construction

Lord of the Rings - Music Analysis

Mesoamerican Cooking Experience

Monster Game

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Overcoming Collective Action

Paper Structure Exercise

Parallel Discussions about Decision-Making

Parisian Narratives in Virtual Reality

Partnered Armed Conflicts — Cooperation Simulation

Patient Interviews

Phineas Gage & the Social Brain Field Trip

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Make Real World Connections to Course Material

Learning Grammar through Lyrics

Learning through Case Construction

Lord of the Rings - Music Analysis

Mesoamerican Cooking Experience

Monster Game

Name Five

Organizational History and Synopsis

Overcoming Collective Action

Paper Structure Exercise

Parallel Discussions about Decision-Making

Parisian Narratives in Virtual Reality

Partnered Armed Conflicts — Cooperation Simulation

Patient Interviews

Phineas Gage & the Social Brain Field Trip

Political Divide Blog Post

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In this online course, students learn about direct and indirect pronouns through examining a French song, which they analyze using collaborative software.

Students familiar with case study analysis construct their own cases to capture a specific ethical question. They then lead their classmates through the case. This case construction gives students the opportunity to try to stump one another with new ethical dilemmas in civil and focused fashion.

Students analyze musical themes from "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", first as a partnered homework assignment, then during a class discussion, and finally on their own as they passed by in the film.

Christina Warinner from the University of Oklahoma uses this interactive cooking activity to expose students to traditional Mesoamerican foods. Students will understand how much labor was necessary to craft these foods during their cultural exploration.

In this game, students have to find their monster cut-out's mate by practicing Portuguese body vocabulary.

Revolutions require collective action. This simple activity, used during the week on revolutions, demonstrates the difficulty of carrying out collective action.

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.

This group discussion format can be used in a week that covers several big concepts, each of which can be discussed along a similar ("parallel") sequence of discussion questions. The concepts in this particular class are: Wisdom of crowds, Heuristic decision-making, Groupthink, and Cooperation.

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

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.

Students in a course on the brain and social interaction visit the museum housing Phineas Gage’s skull and discuss it as a case study of the effects of brain injury on social behavior.

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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