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Planning a Documentary Film on Developmental Biology

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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...

East Asian Text Diagrams

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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...

Going Digital

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The need to re-configure courses online provides an exciting opportunity to bring activity-based learning principles into the classroom. Many activities can be easily adopted into the digital classroom, while some may require more extensive planning...

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ABLConnect is an online database of active learning efforts in post-secondary classrooms. ABLConnect is curated by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University. ABLConnect lets educators easily search the ideas of others in a...

Mapping the Holy

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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...

A Before and After Close Paper Reading: Hydrogeology Edition

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Students read an advanced paper at the beginning of a course and compile a list of terms they do not understand. As the course progresses, the instructor defines these terms. At the end of the course, students re-read the initial paper to gain an...

Group & Cooperative Learning; Students as Classroom Leaders

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The tradition of cooperative learning in higher education can be traced back thousands of years ago, when the Talmud recommended using “learning partners” to understand the legal codes and when Socrates engaged students in the “art of discourse” (Johnson...

Pair and Share

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A typical technique to foster collaborative learning, “pair and share” can take various forms in classrooms. The most commonly practiced and studied is Think-Pair-Share, developed by Frank Lyman of the University of Maryland (Lyman, 1981), where students...

Tagging the Infernal

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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, used an online annotation tool to have students tag images and descriptions of hell and create a "tag...

HMS/BWH Case Study

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For her sixth section, Kirstin Woody Scott prepared this activity based off of the HMS/BWH case study on Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee and tuberculosis. This activity allowed students to discuss and present the knowledge of the case they had...

Case Study for the Regulation of Financial Institutions

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Law students present a case study to their peers, simulating real-world cases young lawyers might face. Introduction: This series of case studies is used to teach Regulation of Financial Institutions. It is designed to give students practical experience...

The Spectrum Game

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Students compare and contrast different philosophers they have read in the course by locating them a spectrum based on various criteria. Introduction: In preparation for their second paper, which required comparing two philosophers, the instructor used...