Students engage in cultural and linguistic immersion through virtual reality (VR) film narratives in a beginner’s French class.

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Using an interactive quiz as a teaching tool, the teaching team works with small groups of students to solve the quiz.... Read more about Data Systems Interactive Quiz

One way to get students engaged in learning is by getting them to self-test and generate their own questions.... Read more about Getting Students to Ask Up

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. ... Read more about Game Design Activity

This in-class activity is designed to challenge students to work through problem sets during the entire class period. Using a topic in class, the instructor formulates an activity sheet based on the topic.... Read more about Applied Math Activity

This in-class activity is part of a public health course that incorporates assessment questions throughout the lecture as an activity-based learning technique.... Read more about Quick Polling for Data Assessments

In this assignment students will be required to investigate properties of habitable zones throughout a galaxy. Using their knowledge, they will uncover how planets relate to their central star.... Read more about Habitable Zones Near and Far

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

Oftentimes there are challenging situations that arise in supervisory relationships.  This activity has students work in small groups to develop strategies to handle such situations.... Read more about Navigating difficult situations as a supervisor

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-...

This activity uses a bag of differently-sized candies to get at the concept of bias in sampling.... Read more about The candy weighing demonstration, or, the unwisdom of crowds

Introduction/Background: Matthew Chenoweth created an interactive activity for students to understand the concepts of atomic structure in a more comprehensive manner. 

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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.

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Pia Sörensen details how the Science of Cooking class conducts lab assignments through actual cooking experiences. For this example, she navigates through the Molten Chocolate Cake Lab/Heat Lab, but also attached three other examples for more resources. This experiment is supposed to help students understand the concepts of science and cooking in a practical setting by actually cooking or baking with the scientific tools and knowledge acquired through class.

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