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Scatterplots, Correlation and Linear Regression

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This worksheet provides scaffolding as students practice new methods concepts. It has students use the statistical software SPSS and scaffolding like sentence frames and graphic organizers to learn about scatterplots, correlation and linear regression...

Theories and Measurement

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These lectures on theories, game theory, and measurement provide an interactive way to teach concepts. The attached power points use concept maps, graphic organizers, and fill-in-the-blanks to make teaching political science methods more interactive and...

Thesis Critique

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What does a good thesis entail? This activity helps students identify the features of a strong thesis. The instructor brings 4-5 thesis statements about texts read previously in the class. Among the sample theses, there is 1 strong one and the rest are...

Koosh Warm-up

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In Ursula Lindqvist's Swedish classes, she has the students "warm-up" by doing an exercise that gets everybody talking immediately. With the entire class standing up in a circle, Ursula throws a koosh ball to a student and asks that student a question in...

Selectorate-Electorate Game

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In-class interactive game between students playing a modification of the "selectorate-electorate" game. This game has a leader distributing private and public benefits, and others voting. In the activity students logged into Econvision.com and played the...

Science and Cooking Review Videos

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Greg Kestin has been working with other staff of Harvard's wildly popular Science and Cooking class to create innovative educational videos as a supplement to lecture. These entertaining videos include animations, simulations, and walkthroughs of...

Philosophical Argument Reconstruction

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What does a strong philosophical argument entail? This easy to implement activity has students reconstruct a philosophical argument. This activity can be done with any philosophical argument. The instructor that contributed it used it frequently with his...

Using Student Data to Teach Research Methods

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Students' own survey data can provide instructors an engaging, accessible tool for teaching students methods concepts. At the beginning of the semester, students took a survey that asked a variety of mundane and absurd questions. The data from the survey...

Watching a Swedish Commercial

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In Swedish Aa, Ursula Lindqvist and Suzanne Martin have their students watch a commercial for a major Swedish food chain on YouTube in order to practice helping verbs and adjectives while working on listening comprehension and being exposed to Swedish...

Specialized Topics in Physics

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About every other week, Greg Kestin held a special optional session for Physics 16, which focused on specialized topics that students wanted to learn. Physics 16 had weekly quizzes where, at the bottom, students could indicate what other topics or skills...

Bringing Objects to Class

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In SLS 12, Erin Blevins engages her students by bringing in actual fish in order to start a discussion of adaptation and evolution. As Erin writes in her Derek Bok Center blog posting, "As everyone observes the fish and consults the specimen labels, they...

Credit Score Opener

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In EC970, Household and Consumer Finance, Robert Turley started class with a real-life activity - an examination of an actual credit score. During the session on credit scores, Robert shared his own credit score with the students prior to discussing the...