This excerpt from the modified syllabus for a course on climate change offers an approach to making a discussion-oriented class work in a virtual environment.
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This resource covers the use of weekly online assignments to engage Algebra 1 students and to encourage student ownership of skill acquisition.
This resource examines a collaborative essay about the visual politics of the coronavirus pandemic. Students worked together remotely to think critically about the momentous history that they were witnessing and their role in the writing of history, its documentation and visual archiving.
This resource offers an in-depth examination of students’ responses to breakout rooms, as well as some techniques and tips for using breakout rooms effectively.
This resource describes a synchronous student presentation of comparative analysis and a following asynchronous discussion.
This resource discusses the use of virtual laboratory tools in an online chemistry course.
This assignment invites students to consider themselves policy makers and to try to reform existing policies in Bangladesh. This resource covers the archiving of student assignments and feedback for later review.
This assignment allows students to see themselves in the material they learn by letting them explore the people who do science, who they are/were, what their experiences and motivations are/were.
This resource covers ways to engage students in online discussion and presentation through the examination of two assignments.
This assignment asked students to read, annotate, and discuss a short story in order to understand how social positioning in the fictional world, as well as in the real world, affects one’s health. Student discussion was followed by a long-form writing assignment.