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.

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Vectors: Lifting a Bowling Ball part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
Compare lifting a bowling ball directly (one small person) to lifting a bowling ball at an angle with two people holding the ends of a rope and the ball hooked to the middle of the rope.

Laboratory Preview and Preparation Sessions part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
Prior to attending each lab, students are required to answer several questions, related to the lab, using an online class management system.

Acids and Bases part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
Conceptual pH ranking activity

Transfusion Case Study part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
This is a case-based interactive activity exploring transfusion reactions.

Just Sort It! An Activity for Algorithm Development part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
This activity is designed to give students the opportunity to develop an algorithm than can be executed by others from the development team's written description of the algorithm.

Get your "lecture freak on" using JiTT part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
This JiTT activity will allow instructors to engage students prior to, during, and after lecture. This will be accomplished by asking questions using instructional technologies, course management systems, and in-class discussion of responses.

Pre-lab activity for the Special Senses part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
In this activity, students identify organs involved in the 5 special senses.

Sex Linked Inheritance part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities

Case Study of Nitrogen in various parts of the Nitrogen cycle: How nitrogen affects human activity and the Environment part of PKAL-MnSCU Activities
In this activity, students will be exposed to aspects of many disciplines of biology to understand how interconnected ALL of the many microcosms of science courses are actually interrelated.