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For Andrew Gray's intermediate Spanish course, students complete an activity using Spanish sayings to improve knowledge of the language and popular oral culture. The only prerequisite for this activity is intermediate knowledge of Spanish. At the...

Alexander Isakov, a graduate student in physics, has his students explain in class how to do crucial steps of math problems for Math 21a. In order to do the activity, students need only to have looked at the homework and know the lecture material. During...

In section for MCB 80, "Neurobiology of Behavior," students play a game similar to Family Feud to review material discussed in lecture. Graduate student Julio Perez uses this activity for his section. In every section, the class is divided into two equal...

In Nathan Kaplan's general education course EMR 14, "Fat Chance," students play games to connect the probability concepts learned in lecture to some fun activities that the students are familiar with. On some broader level, the goal is to see that...

In this midterm review activity, students practice answering multiple choice questions on a wide variety of topics by working in pairs to answer review questions for the midterm. Before the review, students should be familiar with material covered in the...

In this activity, Swedish Aa students view music videos of Swedish pop songs ("Ingen vill veta" and "Du vill så du kan") to practice helping verbs and as a prompt for in-class language practice. The instructors, Suzanne Martin and Ursula Lindqvist provide...

In Swedish Aa, Ursula Lindqvist and Suzanne Martin have their students watch a commercial for a major Swedish food chain on YouTube in order to practice helping verbs and adjectives while working on listening comprehension and being exposed to Swedish...

This course teaches students the skill and process of solving problems in discrete mathematics through active participation in every class. Rather than meeting for lectures, the class is a series of problem-solving sessions. Before class, students...

To prepare for a midterm, students participated in a game of Jeopardy to test their knowledge, engage with the section, and boost their confidence. Before playing Astro-Jeopardy, the students had a chance to ask the instructor questions about the material...

In Statistics 110, Professor Joe Blitzstein provides students "strategic practice problems," arranged by topic which help then do the problem set. The idea for the strategic practice problems came from chess, where strategies are organized by topic. The...