Broad/Fundamental

In this online course, students learn about direct and indirect pronouns through examining a French song, which they analyze using collaborative software. Goals: To demonstrate to students how direct and indirect pronouns are used in a real life language...

In this activity, students will be able to map the history of a student/campus organization, in which they are involved. In doing so, students will relate the development of their specific organization to the wider trends surrounding civic engagement and...

In this activity, students will create an illustration of the Milky Way galaxy from multiple perspectives. Goals: Students will create an illustration of the Milky Way galaxy. The audience for this illustration is that of a high school senior, with a...

This activity is for trainees in the health professions to help develop skills and increase competency to supervise others, as part of their training. It incorporates active learning by having trainees respond in writing to questions about their own...

This activity is designed to assess students’ understanding of the course learning goals by engaging the students in an active, individualistic question and answer session. It provides the instructor with valuable insights about his/her students’ learning...

This reflective activity is designed to provide the instructor with feedback about students’ understanding of course concepts and about their experience with the course. Goals To assess students’ understanding of course concepts and their experience with...

In this activity, students work as a group to create one large conceptual map that includes many or all of the key concepts from the course using large Post-it notes and dry easer markers. Class: HGSE T543: Apply Cognitive Science to Teaching and Learning...

In Emily Riehl's Topology I: Topological Spaces and the Fundamental Group, she uses a fun heads-up-seven-up style quiz to quickly engage students and test the level of confusion among the students. This activity not only helps students participate and...

This activity uses a bag of differently-sized candies to get at the concept of bias in sampling. This activity comes to us from Andrew Gelman. The original activity text is below, and a link to the activity is here. ---------------------------------------...

Students practice and review the fundamental skills of Roman numeral analysis through a competitive question/answer game. Goal/s: For students to become comfortable with the fundamental skills of Roman numeral analysis: chord rotation, building chords on...