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57 results for "Do Now"

57 results for "Do Now"

Do Now

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“Do nows” are brief starters or warm-up activities that occur at the beginning of a lesson. As a teaching strategy, “do now” activities are rooted in constructivist theory (Dewey 1916, 1938) and student-centered learning (Hinton, Fischer, & Glennon, 2012)...

Want to facilitate a Do Now in ​your​ class?

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A Do Now is an activity at the start of a class to instantly get students in the correct mindset for learning or in the middle of class to have students check their understanding. It is commonly brief, usually not longer than 5 or 10 minutes. This...

Current Events Do Now

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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...

Thalidomide: The Pros and Cons

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This case study, contributed by the Cornell Center for Teaching Excellence, is intended to show that two enantiomers can have different effects on the body, and how the same drug can be used to treat different diseases or symptoms. It is also intended to...

Scope

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So, what types of teaching do we support? What is NOT activity based learning? What we do not cover (at least now) Lectures Lectures with basic class questions Discussion sections with standard open questions to group Of course, this means we cover lots...

Normative Models of Citizenship

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This easy "Do Now" gets students engaged from the moment they enter the classroom. Students receive a handout when they enter the class ( see the document below). During the next few minutes, students respond to the questions on the handout, which prompt...

The Candy Weighing Demonstration or The Unwisdom of Crowds

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This activity uses a bag of differently-sized candies to get at the concept of bias in sampling. This activity comes to us from Andrew Gelman. The original activity text is below, and a link to the activity is here. ---------------------------------------...

Those Who Can Do, Teach

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When Dustin Tingley taught the Department of Government class “International Conflict and Cooperation,” his students learned firsthand the role that partisan politics play in shaping the American response to international crises. Read more For one lesson...

Heads-Up Seven-Up Quiz

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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...