Collaborative

In Jacob Barandes' Physics 302, students are driven to learn how to teach and communicate physics by giving small, mini-lessons throughout the semester. They are then driven to perform a longer lesson as a final project to show what they have learned...

This was a semester long project. Throughout the semester, graduate students (many of whom had little previous exposure to the course material) studied the history of Chinese music theory, the Jesuit missionaries who transmitted it back to western Europe...

The primitive navigation final project will involve researching a topic that requires data gathering and analysis, along with research into the history associated with that topic. The final presentation will take the form of a video that will be posted...

For her sixth section, Kirstin Woody Scott prepared this activity based off of the HMS/BWH case study on Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee and tuberculosis. This activity allowed students to discuss and present the knowledge of the case they had...

This activity helps students read texts, analyze them, and present the information into a diagram. Goals: Enable students to closely and quickly analyze texts. Introduction/Background: Students were given texts to read in class. Each of the texts was of a...

This activity created was by Benjamin Schneer, a graduate teaching fellow for GOV30, to help students understand methods in public opinion polling. Schneer provided a dilemma for students to resolve using information about public opinion polling found in...

How do you craft a good thesis statement? In this activity, students work together to refine their ideas and put together possible evidence for different topics. The purpose is to teach students how to connect their thesis statement with the rest of their...

In this activity, students discuss three religious traditions of medieval China to consolidate knowledge and bring out the similarities and contrasts. Before the class, students have already studied the three religions. In a class of 5 - 6 students, three...

Students compare chronologies of different historians of the French Revolution to understand how it has been interpreted and understood by generations of scholars. The activity occurred about halfway through the semester, when the students had a basic...

Claudia Goldin introduces her students to the economic aspects of polygamy and fertility through "fun quizzes" that lead students to reevaluate their preconceptions. Before class, the instructor sends out notes to accompany the readings. Then there are...