Teaching Activities
These teaching activities have been submitted by participants at one of several PKAL-MnSCU workshops. They may be complete, ready-to-use activities or activity ideas or somewhere in between. If you would like to see activities from a particular workshop, select the workshop in the navigation menu at the right and then check out the workspace or activities page that appears underneath it.Authors wishing to edit their submissions can go to http://serc.carleton.edu/serc/cms/single_page.html for instructions on making an account as well as links to help in editing your submission.
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Subject
Pedagogy
- Cooperative Learning 6 matches
- Demonstrations 1 match
- Group Work 3 matches
- In-class Problems 1 match
- Investigative Case Based Learning 1 match
- Just in Time Teaching 5 matches
- Lecture 7 matches
- Peer Review 1 match
- Problem Solving -DONTUSE 6 matches
- Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning 4 matches
- Quantitative Reasoning 1 match
- Role Playing 1 match
- Teaching with Cases 1 match
- Think-Pair-Share 1 match
Results 1 - 10 of 21 matches
Wonder Lake, a Case Study part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
A town board based classroom scenario where students decide what to do with a parcel of land on the shoreline of a lake. Various interested parties try to purchase, but must answer town board questions in the process. Real issues of land-use, resource allocation, ethics, planning, and impacts.
Metric System Conversions: Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) activity part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
This activity helps student learn to convert within the metric system and begin learning about process skill necessary for working in groups.
Student Inquiry Into Cellular Respiration part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
A POGIL activity regarding cellular respiration with an additional activity regarding the function of NAD+ in redox reactions.
Learning to Paraphrase: A Group Activity part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
This is a short paper assignment assigned to groups of 3 that teaches students how to paraphrase.
Ionic and Binary Compound Chemical Nomenclature part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
This is a POGIL activity geared for general chemistry students. The activity guides students through the process of determining how ionic and binary compounds are named as well as inorganic acids.
Antibacterial soaps, friend or foe: An investigative case study part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
This lab activity will not only draw on students' real life experiences but will also draw on student's previous lab experiences in proper laboratory techniques and data analysis performed in previous activities. The lab will incorporate the use of scientific inquiry methods and strategies while students develop reasonable answers to the questions asked.
The Candle Icebreaker part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
Small groups of students examine a candle to consider its chemical properties. Class discussion follows to consider macro vs. molecular events, energy, phase changes, etc.
Written Assignment Sessions part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
Provide students an opportunity to read scientific literature, express understanding of scientific content and write a summary of the written work.
Video Presentation Sessions part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
Provide opportunities to experience historic and/or current scientific information through audio/visual media. Further, these sessions allow students to express and discuss their understanding of the science content and its relevance prior to writing a summary.
Using enthalpy to assess fuel sources part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
A variety of fuels are evaluated for the amount of heat they liberate upon burning. This includes a discussion of how different criteria can influence the evaluation of what makes a "good" fuel.