Effective Teaching Activities
- Real world activities
- Can be understood at a variety of levels
- Related to a real-world problem; solving a real problem
- Fun: engaging, allows students to be successful
- Allows students to work with data
- Well-organized
- Includes contextual information
- Students explain things to each other
- Require creative thinking or independent thought
- Having a tangible, clear end product
- Incorporates feedback to students before they are done
- Uses familiar technology in a new way, or using new technology
- Uses visual aids that are easily accessible
- Allows students to formulate their own questions
- Students compare methodologies
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