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135 results for "Descriptive"
Visual Arts in Dermatology: Training the Eye
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A novel yearly course introducing observational skills to dermatology residents, using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) Goal: To focus on the nuances of observation with no background knowledge required (texture, color, shape, shadow). To allow each...
Sound Walk Recording Activity
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This repeating exercise challenges students to learn and memorize previous week's vocabulary. In this particular exercise, the task was to create a sound walk using directions and places in the Indonesian language. Goal : To evaluate each student's...
Oral Presentations
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Rachel Gillett reports that in the History and Literature Sophomore Tutorials, students are required to do three oral presentations with the help of the instructors in order to hone their public speaking and critical thinking skills. Prior to the...
Share Activities!
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Do you teach undergraduates? If so, we want to add your active learning activities to ABLConnect! Your contribution will help other instructors implement similar ideas. How to contribute your activities to ABLConnect: We want to make it as easy as...
Drawing Our Galaxy
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In this activity, students will create an illustration of the Milky Way galaxy from multiple perspectives. Goals: Students will create an illustration of the Milky Way galaxy. The audience for this illustration is that of a high school senior, with a...
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...
Hemingway Parody
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Let your students be Hemingway for a day. In this parody exercise, students learn Hemingway's style by adopting it. During the section, students write a paragraph or several in imitation of Hemingway's style. They can write about any topic. The class then...
Sounding China
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This was a semester long project. Throughout the semester, graduate students (many of whom had little previous exposure to the course material) studied the history of Chinese music theory, the Jesuit missionaries who transmitted it back to western Europe...
Bring a Goddess to a Party
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Students were expected to have researched one goddess from the ancient Near East as described in several primary and secondary sources. The description of the activity on the syllabus is as follows: Choose a female deity or demon from the ancient Near...
Leading Swedish Class
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In Swedish Ba, Ursula Lindqvist has students lead discussion on a current topic relevant to children's issues. This course focuses on children's literature and culture. This intermediate Swedish class is taught according to themes, and in fall 2012, that...
Section Presentations
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In the 2008 offering of Math 154, Professor Paul Bamberg had small weekly sections where students prepared problems from the textbook in advance, which they presented for each other. The textbook used in the class contained 1000 problems with somewhat...