This learning module teaches medical students how to form a trusting relationship with children and their families during medical encounters, through classroom, tutorial, role-play, and team-based learning. ... Read more about Engaging the Pediatric Patient: Building Trusting Relationships with Children

Students analyze musical themes from "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", first as a partnered homework assignment, then during a class discussion, and finally on their own as they passed by in the film.

... Read more about Lord of the Rings - Music Analysis

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

... Read more about Parisian Narratives in Virtual Reality

This activity engages adult learners in design thinking by having them build an online lesson using the Canvas learning management system.... Read more about Design Thinking for Adult Learning

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

Students experience what it is like to be an expert in a field by focusing their research and writing on a single fairy tale and its adaptations throughout the course of a semester.

... Read more about Cumulative Fairy Tale Essays

Students are told to offer a “devastating” rejection to their peers’ written projects to help students learn to anticipate and address counterarguments.... Read more about The Devastation Game

Students present an “elevator pitch” of their paper idea to their peers, and then receive feedback about their idea.... Read more about Elevator Pitch Paper Workshop

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...

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. 

... Read more about Atomic Structure Interactive Activity

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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This activity, contributed by the Cornell Center for Teaching Excellence, was created for a graduate communications class to provide students with the opportunity to practice concise description of their graduate research projects.  Students go on "speed dates" to practice giving eloquent blurbs of their research.... Read more about Speed Dating Elevator Talks

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.

... Read more about Red Light, Green Light: Cell Division and Angelina Jolie