Lecture

Created by Laura Conner, Susan Hester, Anne-Marie Hoskinson, Mary Beth Leigh, Andy Martin ,and Tom Powershis, and contributed by Yale University's Center for Scientific Teaching, this case study lesson reinforces the concept of coevolution and gives...

In order to get students to participate in lecture, Pardis Sabeti t hrows clementines to anyone who answers a question correctly or incorrectly. She says that c lementines are perfect for this in that they are soft, right-sized, projectile, and nutritious...

In gen ed course "First Nights," students invent their own chords and rhythms based on Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" in order to to better describe the way in which the piece was composed by experiencing that composition themselves. Before the activity, t...

Greg Kestin has been working with other staff of Harvard's wildly popular Science and Cooking class to create innovative educational videos as a supplement to lecture. These entertaining videos include animations, simulations, and walkthroughs of...

Students work in groups to answer problem set questions in section and then discuss the answers with the class. At the beginning of class, students receive section handouts prepared by the head TF. Then, they work in small groups of 2 to 4 students to...

"Other Minds" is a rolling twitter feed that students participate in during lecture. The instructor can either make the feed visible or set it up so that he or she can see it but the students cannot. Students can be anonymous or choose to include their...

Are people predisposed to favor their own groups at the expense of others, even when the group distinction is completely arbitrary? This activity replicates, more or less, the exact experiment used by Henri Tajfel to demonstrate the "minimal group...

There has been an outbreak of an unusual Asian disease. Which policy is best based on the scientific estimations of how many people will be saved? This activity uses this example with poll everywhere (polleverywhere.com) technology to demonstrate framing...

These lectures on theories, game theory, and measurement provide an interactive way to teach concepts. The attached power points use concept maps, graphic organizers, and fill-in-the-blanks to make teaching political science methods more interactive and...

Students' own survey data can provide instructors an engaging, accessible tool for teaching students methods concepts. At the beginning of the semester, students took a survey that asked a variety of mundane and absurd questions. The data from the survey...