Whole class

This activity exposes first-time graduate researchers to all stages of the research process through sourcing leads from fellow classmates. Goal: To create a collective research environment –otherwise known as "crowd researching". Background: This activity...

This course uses the Harvard case method to work on student's change challenges. Goal: For students to articulate change, and apply learning concepts to their “change projects”. Background: The entire course is designed around an iterative process of...

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. Activity: Applied Math Activity Goal/s: To enable...

Through this activity, students were challenged to think critically about the rhetoric which drove the events of the Peloponnesian war. Activity: Micropolitan Dialogue Goal/s: The goal of the Micropolitan Dialogue was to have students think critically...

By splitting students into three, distinct Late Roman Republic groups (Optimates, Populares, and Moderates), the instructor had students developed personas based on their assignments through the Twitter platform. Activity: Roman History through Twitter...

This in-class activity is part of a public health course that incorporates assessment questions throughout the lecture as an activity-based learning technique. Activity: Intro to Data Science Lecture Goal/s: To allow both the student and the teaching...

This exercise requires students to think about the logistics of meal planning and shopping on a SNAP budget, and to imagine the material and emotional realities of poverty. Activity: Hunger Challenge - Living on SNAP Goal/s: To give Harvard/other college...

This term course on education and community in America explores the origins and evolution of students and faculty engagement in their communities, specifically in educational programs from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Activity...

This activity makes use of a mad lib game to reinforce logical computation steps that are crucial in formal semantics. Goal: To help students practice definitions and computation steps in a fun, interactive setting. Background: This in-class activity was...

This activity teaches skills in critical assessment of the peer-reviewed published literature. It focuses on analysis of clinical trials in mental health, but the principles and methods are readily generalizable to other scientific literature. The...