Common task where small groups form to discuss a good question. Alternatively individuals can brainstorm individually first. After small group, a representative reports to the group.
Students learn about taxonomic classification by categorizing fictional animal-like forms into species based on their physical features.... Read more about Caminalcule Taxonomy Exercise
To learn about sampling techniques in social science research, students practice tackling a real-world research problem through discussing a hypothetical case.... Read more about Statistical Sampling Case Study
Overview: In this activity, students read each other's outlines on their final course paper and then met in small groups to give each other constructive feedback.
Course: H156 Research Schools
Goals
1) To provide students with feedback on their outlines
2) To give students the opportunity to peer teach and to see how other students are structuring their outlines and arguments
Introduction/Background: Research supports that peer-to-peer teaching can be...
Introduction/Background: Matthew Chenoweth created an interactive activity for students to understand the concepts of atomic structure in a more comprehensive manner.
Objectives: In this assignment designed by J.M. Grenier, Students will be able to explain what is meant by a "virtual world" and the 3D web, as well as discuss the potential for the use of these tools and their impact to existing methods of communication on the web.
Overview: 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 kind that can be represented straightforwardly as a diagram: geography (map), a series of events (cyclical calendar), or a description of the body in relation to the cosmos (a star...
Created by Kostia Bergman, Erin Cram, Wendy Smith, Scott Dobrin, Presque Isle, and Judith Roe, this lesson for an intermediate Cell Biology course encourages students to take a big-picture view of the cell by comparing cells to buildings in order to think about the dynamic processes within cells. The lesson utilizes a jigsaw and quick write.... Read more about Cells vs. Buildings
Created by Paul Ogg, Melissa Krebs, Vida Melvin, Amanda Charlesworth, and Melanie Badtke, this lesson teaches how cells regulate cell division using some lecture interspersed with interactive activities including clicker questions, pair/share, and class discussion, applying concepts to Angelina Jolie's BRCA1 mutation.
This lesson, created by Graciela Unguez, Erika Abel, Vanessa Castleberry, Rizalia Klausmeyer, Aaron Snead, Martina Rosenberg, William S. Garver, and Marcy Osgood for the National Academies Summer Institute for Undergraduate Education in Biology uses clickers, pair and share, and other exercises to help students "understand the effect of environmental pH on the ionization status of weak acids and weak bases."... Read more about Shakespeare on Acid: To ionize or not to ionize?
By describing periodicals from the 1840’s for the class, students in Elisa New’s seminar begin to understand the course material and find a voice in the classroom.
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 paper, and to revise the two in tandem (start with a draft thesis, bring some evidence together, revise the thesis to better reflect the evidence, revise the evidence to better fit the thesis, etc.)... Read more about Thesis Statement Peer Review
