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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...

Students are asked to write down a weird or random fact about themselves on a sticky note and to pass it to the person to their left. Each student is then asked to brainstorm logically possible explanations of the fact he or she has received. Through this...

This activity in introductory game development is intended to offer concrete initial tools for solving some of the course problems, and provide comfortably small groups in which all student voices might be shared. Activity : Game Design Activity Goal : To...

This activity makes use of a mad lib game to reinforce logical computation steps that are crucial in formal semantics. Goal: To help students practice definitions and computation steps in a fun, interactive setting. Background: This in-class activity was...

Students are actively engaged in reviewing for an exam by a PowerPoint of quiz questions that they respond to on individual dry erase board. Goals: review a broad range of course topics in an efficient manner actively engage students in the process of...

Students appreciate how different characteristics of diseases affect their transmission through playing the game Plague Inc. Goals: to teach students how disease characteristics and symptoms affect the spread of a disease through different populations to...

Students apply what they have learned in the classroom to their own dinner plates by creating a meal based on principles of health and sustainability that are attentive to personal, local, and global considerations. Goals: more deeply understand what...

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...

This final lab project, contributed by the Cornell Center for Teaching Excellence, utilizes the techniques learned throughout the semester in the lab as well as the concepts learned in the lecture portion of the class. The project involves a person...

This is an activity for Lioudmila Zaitseva's Elementary Russian class. She goes through a floor plan illustration on the board and calls on volunteers to label the parts, then place a corresponding image in the specific zone of the plan. This is a fun way...