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Students engage in cultural and linguistic immersion through virtual reality (VR) film narratives in a beginner’s French class. Introduction: This class is a second semester beginning French class. To encourage student’s engagement, the instructors turned...

In this activity, students debated topics in science and technology from the perspective of a stakeholder during a particular period in 20th century American history. While this structure was used for all three debates, this posting will draw from one...

In this activity, students will have an opportunity to debate current controversial issues in biotechnology from the point of view of a stakeholder group. Goal: Engage in discourse regarding the ethical nature of specific scientific innovations. Class...

To foster science communication skills, students are asked to propose a plan for a documentary film about an issue in developmental biology. They have to create a film poster and pamphlet that is presented at a class showcase. Goal/s: (1) To allow...

Students were asked to produce a multimedia and historical analysis of the archives of Saudi Aramco World. It aimed to bring historical and secondary sources alive by putting students directly in contact with primary, archival sources and asking them to...

Created by Moriah Beck, Masih Shokrani, Karen Koster, William Soto, David McDonald, and David Swanson for the National Academies Northstar Institute for Undergraduate Teaching in Biology, this activity spans 2-3 classes and uses lecture, clicker questions...

In Caroline Light's course, WGS1238: Consuming Passions, students participate in a simulation where each student acts out the persona of either an invented/fictional character or a real public figure. They then debate a question regarding globalization in...

In CB51: Making the Middle Ages, the teaching staff, consisting of Professor Dan Smail and TFs Rowan Dorin, Zoe Silverman, Joey McMullen, and Rena Lauer, had students read a common text on a medieval saint, extract all the place names mentioned, and map...

In EMR16, students design their own wine or chocolate-tasting experiment in order to use the principles of experimental design and data analysis. Students are actually given money to purchase chocolate or wine (depending on their age). They then have to...

Students collect cognitive maps of safe and dangerous parts of Boston via street interviews and write research papers on their original findings. According to Matt Kaliner, the goal of this assignment is assess ideas from class via data they collected...