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Library Podcast

After field trips to three different museums, students create a short 90 second podcast in which they discuss one object encountered. Through this project, students engage with primary artifacts and practice their communication skills. Introduction...

The Spectrum Game

Students compare and contrast different philosophers they have read in the course by locating them a spectrum based on various criteria. Introduction: In preparation for their second paper, which required comparing two philosophers, the instructor used...

Visualizing Humanitarian Crises and Interventions

Student groups are each assigned a region experiencing a humanitarian crisis for research. They produce a visual timeline representing the processes precipitating and leading up to the crisis and the relief efforts undertaken in response. As a final...

A Before and After Close Paper Reading: Hydrogeology Edition

Students read an advanced paper at the beginning of a course and compile a list of terms they do not understand. As the course progresses, the instructor defines these terms. At the end of the course, students re-read the initial paper to gain an...

Data Systems Interactive Quiz

Using an interactive quiz as a teaching tool, the teaching team works with small groups of students to solve the quiz. Goal : To promote creative thinking; to have students undergo the research process; to communicate concepts and scientific results...

Systems Engineering and Machine Architecture Activity

This course on systems engineering and machine architecture weaves a variety of activities including problem sets and coding exercises, to create a more applicable experience for the students. Goal : The goal of the in-class activities is to form a bridge...

All Questions Valid

This activity emphasizes to students that each question is valid and worth more discussion by incorporating each question raised during section. Goal : To address all questions that students bring up during lecture, and to encourage students to ask more...

Sound Walk Recording Activity

This repeating exercise challenges students to learn and memorize previous week's vocabulary. In this particular exercise, the task was to create a sound walk using directions and places in the Indonesian language. Goal : To evaluate each student's...

Impact of Buildings on Health-Term Activity

This instructor leverages field trips to the Boston area to reinforce weekly lectures on the impact of buildings to environmental health. Goal : The goal of the format of this class is to: 1) have students read peer-reviewed literature and actively lead...

Navigating Big Data

This activity embeds research, problem solving, and presentation skills to expand prior knowledge on big data. Goal : To teach students how to brainstorm, how to creatively think about research and how to communicate fundamental computer science concepts...

3 Activities to Understanding Biomaterials

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. Goal : The objective for the near-weekly in-class activities is to get students...

Getting Students to Ask Up

One way to get students engaged in learning is by getting them to self-test and generate their own questions. Goal : To enhance learning that occurs in passive lectures by engaging students in question-generation. Background : The instructor created a...

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