A novel yearly course introducing observational skills to dermatology residents, using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)

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Using an interactive quiz as a teaching tool, the teaching team works with small groups of students to solve the quiz.... Read more about Data Systems Interactive Quiz

This activity emphasizes to students that each question is valid and worth more discussion by incorporating each question raised during section.... Read more about All Questions Valid

This instructor leverages field trips to the Boston area to reinforce weekly lectures on the impact of buildings to environmental health.... Read more about Impact of Buildings on Health-Term Activity

This course designed a set of interactive, hands-on, in-class activities designed to allow students to explore concepts before they were rigorously presented in lecture.... Read more about 3 Activities to Understanding Biomaterials

Is it possible to teach organizational behavior in a classroom? See how this instructor accomplishes this.... Read more about Organizational Behavior Activity

By splitting students into three, distinct Late Roman Republic groups (Optimates, Populares, and Moderates), the instructor had students developed personas based on their assignments through the Twitter platform.... Read more about Roman History through Twitter

This in-class activity is part of a public health course that incorporates assessment questions throughout the lecture as an activity-based learning technique.... Read more about Quick Polling for Data Assessments

This exercise requires students to think about the logistics of meal planning and shopping on a SNAP budget, and to imagine the material and emotional realities of poverty.... Read more about Hunger Challenge - Living on SNAP

This particular single-class activity got students acquainted with confidence intervals using a simple iPad and the attached handout.... Read more about Complex Stats, Simple Tech

This activity makes use of a mad lib game to reinforce logical computation steps that are crucial in formal semantics.

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This activity teaches skills in critical assessment of the peer-reviewed published literature.  It focuses on analysis of clinical trials in mental health, but the principles and methods are readily generalizable to other scientific literature.  The “Smackdown” approach represents an augmentation of the traditional “journal club” mode of teaching critical scientific reading skills.

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Students learn about the importance of gestures in baroque opera through viewing and practicing them.

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Students learn about sustainable development and risk management through action learning – applying concepts to real world organizations and discussing ideas with peers.

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Students conducted physics experiments aboard a small airplane piloted by the instructor in order to better understand aerodynamics.

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