Volcanoes Writing Assignment part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Students write an original work of fiction pertaining to the geology of stratovolcanoes and their eruptive hazards.

Using Poetry to Explore the Rhetoric of Environmental Justice part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching Environmental Justice: Interdisciplinary Approaches:Activities
How can literary work give us deeper insight into the concept of environmental justice? This activity explores the crossroads of political writing and poetry, and challenges students to put environmental justice principles into their own words.

Mapping Place, Writing Home: Using Interactive Compositions On and Off the Trail part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
Students will choose a physical place to study, a site that is close enough to visit at least four times during the quarter/semester. Using writing prompts, text-based research, and close observations in the "field" (the chosen place), students will create a "mashup" of spatially referenced pop-up balloons. These will include researched and narrative prose, citations and links, and some visual images, embedded into a map via Google Earth technology. Through this unique presentation, the research and writing can encourage viewers to better understand the place they have chosen to study.

Learning to Paraphrase: A Group Activity part of MnSCU Partnership:PKAL-MnSCU Activities
This is a short paper assignment assigned to groups of 3 that teaches students how to paraphrase.

Illustrated Serial Edition Project part of Workshops:Class Assignments
ENGL 327: Victorian Novel Instructor: Susan Jaret McKinstry English Spring 2010 Viz Victorian Novel Webpage Assignment Archive Course DescriptionWe studied selected British novels of the nineteenth century ...

ENGL 100: Shakespeare on Film and ENGL 310: Shakespeare II part of Workshops:Class Assignments
ENGL 100: Shakespeare on Film and ENGL 310: Shakespeare II Instructor: Pierre Hecker English Spring and Fall 2011 Viz Brave New Worlds Webpage ENGL 100 Course DescriptionThis seminar explores the many ways in ...

What's Up With Your Stuff? part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
Through a quarter-long series of assignments students determine their ecological footprint and explore their relationship with consumer culture. Students are given an opportunity to participate in a "service-learning" activity.

Calculating Readability part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students use the Gunning FOG Index, the Flesch Reading Ease Scale and the FORCAST Readability Formula to understand the readability level of a given passage.

Finding the Personal Voice of Sustainability part of SISL:Activities
This is an acting exercise that could be used with theater students, or any course in which the instructor wishes the students to explore a more personal connection to sustainability and environmental concerns. ...

ENGL 327: Victorian Novel (Assignment Two) part of Workshops:Class Assignments
ENGL 327: Victorian Novel (Assignment Two) Instructor: Susan Jaret McKinstry English Spring 2012 Course Description We will study selected British novels of the nineteenth century (Eliot's Middlemarch, ...