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Botany of Harvard Square

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This project has students work in pairs explore the botany of Harvard Square. Students find a plant-related item to research and prepare a an abstract, a presentation, and a written report. Students investigate Harvard square to find a plant product. Once...

Complex Stats, Simple Tech

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This particular single-class activity got students acquainted with confidence intervals using a simple iPad and the attached handout. Activity: Complex Stats, Simple Tech Goal/s: The goal of the activity was to get the students comfortable with...

Community Service & Education

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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...

Hunger Challenge - Living on SNAP

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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...

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ABLConnect is run by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University. For general inquiries, please write to us at bokcenter@fas.harvard.edu.

Peer Learning for Dissection

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In this single-class activity, students receive a lab handout with background information about the dissections for the day, which include bolded terms/anatomical features that they are expected to know for a following practical exam in that topic...

Quick Polling for Data Assessments

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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...

Roman History through Twitter

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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...

Micropolitan Dialogue

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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...

Archaeology Expedition

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In this activity, students become members of an achaelogical expedition to Harvard Yard 2000 years in the future. Activity: Archaeology Expedition Goal/s: To get students to think critically about architecture and the built environment around them To...

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Applied Math Activity

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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...