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Analyzing Andean Artifacts
Each week in "Pathways through the Andes," students examine and discuss 10-15 objects from the collection of the Harvard Peabody Museum. Students complete assigned readings on the various kinds of artifacts before their section meets in the object study...

Credit Score Opener
In EC970, Household and Consumer Finance, Robert Turley started class with a real-life activity - an examination of an actual credit score. During the session on credit scores, Robert shared his own credit score with the students prior to discussing the...

Course Blog
In CB51: Making the Middle Ages, the teaching staff, consisting of Professor Dan Smail and TFs Rowan Dorin, Zoe Silverman, Joey McMullen, and Rena Lauer, introduced the course with a class blog, which continued to be used throughout the course for...

Bible Adaptations and Imitations
In his Bible in the Humanities section, David Weimer had students present a modern object that makes an allusion or reference to the Bible. This activity allows students to explore modern-day understandings of the Bible as they relate to the original text...

Punishment in an American Prison
In Law and American Society, Dr. Terry Aladjem's takes his students to visit a prison following a unit on punishment in order to apply theories of punishment to the real world. Before the trip, students spend about three sessions discussing theories of...

Choose Your Own Fish
In Patterns & Processes in Fish Diversity (OEB 130), Professor George Lauder's students create entries for the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Students choose a fish that does not yet have an entry or only has a very sparse entry on the EOL. Students can...

Wine (or Chocolate) Tasting Experiment
In EMR16, students design their own wine or chocolate-tasting experiment in order to use the principles of experimental design and data analysis. Students are actually given money to purchase chocolate or wine (depending on their age). They then have to...

Stock Market Game
In past offerings of EM-16: Real-Life Statistics, students virtually invested in the stock market in order to apply statistics concepts. After learning concepts like expected value, variance, and regression toward the mean, students formed teams and...

Statistics Mini-Assignments
In EMR16 and Stat139, students periodically do very brief "mini-assignments" which require them to submit or consider something that the instructor incorporates into lecture. For example, one mini-assignment involves finding a plot of data on the internet...

Leading Swedish Class
In Swedish Ba, Ursula Lindqvist has students lead discussion on a current topic relevant to children's issues. This course focuses on children's literature and culture. This intermediate Swedish class is taught according to themes, and in fall 2012, that...

Swedish Music Videos
In this activity, Swedish Aa students view music videos of Swedish pop songs ("Ingen vill veta" and "Du vill så du kan") to practice helping verbs and as a prompt for in-class language practice. The instructors, Suzanne Martin and Ursula Lindqvist provide...

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...