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Weekly Reflections part of Introductory Courses:Activities
This is a weekly short writing assignment that forces students to summarize materials presented in class, to reflect on their own performance and understanding of the material, and to relate it to their individual ...
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills, Assessment, Communication Skills:Writing
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Learning About Racial Demography Using the US Census part of QuIRK:Curricular Materials:Quantitative Writing:Examples
The purpose of this activity is to give students the opportunity to learn how the US Census categorizes race and analyze racialized descriptive statistics. They will get a chance to digest the material in the Census reports, and teach it to others.
Water Wars: A look at Gallatin Valley Water Controversies part of Public Policy:Activities
This virtual field trip explores the science and policy of a ground water dispute in Gallatin Valley Montana. The virtual field trip uses a role-playing activity to explore the geology, hydrology and policy related ...
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Pedagogic Methods:Other:Role Playing, Teaching in Specific Environments:Virtual Field Trips, Teaching with Data, Models, Visuals, & Technology, Communication Skills:Writing, Pedagogic Methods:Problem Solving
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Student Lead Discussions: Articles from the Literature and Final Writing Assignment part of Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities
This is a two-stage assignment. The first stage is a student-led discussion of a set of closely related articles selected by the instructors from the climate change literature. The second stage is an 8-12 page ...
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills, Special Topics:Teaching with Literature, Communication Skills:Writing
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Investigating the Rock Cycle Through Writing and Illustrating part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a quantative writing activity where students will use writing and illustrations to show their knowledge of the basic rock cycle.
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing, Communication Skills:Writing, Communication Skills
Quantitative Writing part of Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing
Original module compiled by John C. Bean at Seattle University Enhanced by Steven A. Greenlaw with assistance from John C. Bean, Nathan Grawe, and Dean Peterson. What is Quantitative Writing? Quantitative writing ...
Intro to Environmental Geology Writing Assignment part of Student Learning: Observing and Assessing:Activities with Rubrics
Students in an introductory environmental geology class research the Dust Bowl, analyze information and data and develop a written argument.
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing, Communication Skills
Well structured versus Ill structured problems part of Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing
A 'well-structured problem' yields a right answer through the application of an appropriate algorithm. Most textbook problem sets in mathematics, science, engineering, or business feature well-structured ...
Elements of Good Writing part of Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing
Regardless of the type of assignment, good writing has several common elements, shown below in order of importance. Common Elements of Good Writing (adapted from Greenlaw (2005) Chapter 5) Focus - The paper should ...
Exploring Economic Inequality with Data part of Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing:Examples
This set of assignments exposes students to data which can be used to analyze economic inequality in international and historical context. Then students are asked to generate a thesis-driven argument drawing supporting evidence from one or more of the data sources.
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing, Communication Skills, Quantitative Reasoning, Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing