10 to 30 minutes

In Jennifer Osterhage's Introductory Biology I taught at the University of Kentucky, she taught the concepts involved in the electron transport chain using a fun, interactive activity with clickers and student volunteers. Goals: The goals of this activity...

This activity was created as a Title III Student Success initiative. This activity is a fun way to show how chemical and electrical impulses travel through the body. Goals: Students should learn how to name the basic unit of the nervous system and...

In OEB 119: Deep Sea Biology, groups of students have to present and lead discussions on scientific papers throughout the semester. Before class each week, all students have to read an assigned scientific paper and post a summary paragraph and two...

In Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology 180, students present scientific papers in groups throughout the semester. At the beginning of the term, the teaching fellows (TFs) provide a handout on good student presentations. See attachment below . Then the TFs...

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...

In Syon Bhanot's section of Ec 10, students play a game to understand comparative advantage and the benefits of trade. The instructor splits the students into two groups, each of which represents a different country. The groups receive information on what...

In Trisha Shrum's section of Ec 10, students are asked to find current news articles relating to the theoretical concepts learned in class. Each week, a different student or pair of students sends an article out to the class 24 hours before section...

In Anne Shreffler's freshman seminar on Beethoven's String Quartets, students in the class perform excerpts from the music being studied in practically every class. To allow this, Professor Shreffler selects some musicians among the applicants for the...

In gen ed course "First Nights," students invent their own chords and rhythms based on Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" in order to to better describe the way in which the piece was composed by experiencing that composition themselves. Before the activity, t...

In gen ed course, Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 31: American Musicals and Culture, students in Luci Mok's section present one-minute summaries of musicals to engage with the main plot and show that they have seen it. To prepare for the activity...