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Students familiar with case study analysis construct their own cases to capture a specific ethical question. They then lead their classmates through the case. This case construction gives students the opportunity to try to stump one another with new...

In this single-class activity, students receive a lab handout with background information about the dissections for the day, which include bolded terms/anatomical features that they are expected to know for a following practical exam in that topic...

This particular single-class activity got students acquainted with confidence intervals using a simple iPad and the attached handout. Activity: Complex Stats, Simple Tech Goal/s: The goal of the activity was to get the students comfortable with...

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. Goals: To show students how to choose an area of expertise and join in an...

Students conducted physics experiments aboard a small airplane piloted by the instructor in order to better understand aerodynamics. Goals: To provide students with an understanding of the principles underlying heavier-than-air flight through hands-on...

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 visited a variety of community institutions across the neighborhood and contributed pictures and observations to an online map of Dorchester. Goals: The primary goals of the activity were three-fold. First, the digital ethnographic map provided...

In this activity, students will be able to map the history of a student/campus organization, in which they are involved. In doing so, students will relate the development of their specific organization to the wider trends surrounding civic engagement and...

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. Goal/s: Calculate how the temperature of a planet depends on...

In this activity, students will create an illustration of the Milky Way galaxy from multiple perspectives. Goals: Students will create an illustration of the Milky Way galaxy. The audience for this illustration is that of a high school senior, with a...