up to 10 minutes

This activity follows an adjustable sequence of steps and rules for engagement to ensure that all students, even in large classes, are able to find each session clear, accessible, rigorous, and relevant and to feel that the classroom culture offers them...

Students are asked to write down a weird or random fact about themselves on a sticky note and to pass it to the person to their left. Each student is then asked to brainstorm logically possible explanations of the fact he or she has received. Through this...

Students provided feedback on the highlights of lecture (Roses) and confusing concepts (Thorns) through a weekly online form, providing students with time for reflection and instructors with the ability to address areas of confusion. Goals: to quickly...

This reflective activity is designed to provide the instructor with feedback about students’ understanding of course concepts and about their experience with the course. Goals To assess students’ understanding of course concepts and their experience with...

In this short warm up activity, students share current events with the class and briefly discuss the issue. The activity promotes student engagement in the classroom and encourages students to be informed on current international affairs. Goals: (1) To...

In Emily Riehl's Topology I: Topological Spaces and the Fundamental Group, she uses a fun heads-up-seven-up style quiz to quickly engage students and test the level of confusion among the students. This activity not only helps students participate and...

As part of their Spanish exam, students role play a literary character and create an oral presentation on a mobile application they have designed. Goal/s: (1) To emphasize the three modes of communication (interpersonal, presentational, and interpretive)...

This activity helps students read texts, analyze them, and present the information into a diagram. Goals: Enable students to closely and quickly analyze texts. Introduction/Background: Students were given texts to read in class. Each of the texts was of a...

For the STAT104 first class of the semester, Lecturer Michael Parzen throws an inflatable globe of the world into the class audience to get the class excited about learning future topics of experimentation, randomness, and estimation. Parzen begins every...

In order to get students to participate in lecture, Pardis Sabeti t hrows clementines to anyone who answers a question correctly or incorrectly. She says that c lementines are perfect for this in that they are soft, right-sized, projectile, and nutritious...