Humanities Social sciences

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

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Languages and Literature

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

These gamified activities will help sensitize students to the nuances of diction and allow them to work together.

Languages and Literature

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Languages and Literature

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Mathematics

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

Mathematics STEM

An Abundance of Bells

Languages and Literature

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

History Social sciences

Family HiStories of Migration

Students interview two members of their family to collect information about their family history and present it in class.

History Social sciences

Reflective Reading on Islam

Students use homework questions to prompt a deeper engagement with the reading material to generate better class discussion.

Languages and Literature

Pratique d’écriture

Languages and Literature

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Mathematics STEM

Sketching the graph of a curve