Classroom Activity

Discovery Project: Community builder: Powerpoint Party

In this activity, students created individual PowerPoint slides with information about themselves and their goals for the program, including visuals. In class, they each presented their slide for 2 minutes, followed by a Kahoot quiz on the shared details. Author: Marieka Schotland, Executive Director at i4Y (Innovations for Youth), Berkeley Public Health Course Number & Title: PH199: Independent Study - YEDI (Youth Equity Discovery Initiative) Grant Type:...

3D Model Data Acquisition & Virtual Reality-Based Visualization of Infrastructure

In this activity, students apply Structure-from-Motion techniques learned in lectures by visiting the Geosystems Sensing and Analytics Laboratory (GeoSAL). Authors: Dimitrios Zekkos, Robert Kayen, Kenichi Soga, Nick Sitar, Professors in Civil and Environmental Engineering Course Number & Title: CE170A: Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling Grant Type:...

Concise Communication through Flash Fiction

In this activity, students worked in pairs or small groups to first distill the day's reading into a haiku and then into a six-word story, sharing and discussing each with the class. Author: Srijani Ghosh, Lecturer in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Course Number & Title: Female Playwrights and XEnglish R1B: Girls, Misunderstood?: “Deviant” Women in Literature Grant Type: Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program (LTF...

Reconstruct a Lecture

In this activity, students collaborated as a class to reconstruct a lecture based on randomly-mixed lecture slides and prior knowledge of their primary object of analysis (Lydia Millet’s novel A Children’s Bible.) Author: Becky Hsu, Lecturer in College Writing Programs Course Number & Title: ColWrit R1A: Accelerated Reading & Composition Grant Type: Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program (LTF)

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Terrestrial Nitrogen Cycle Jigsaw Puzzle

In this activity, students represented organisms in the nitrogen cycle and collaboratively formed a physical representation of the cycle. Author: Christine Gehrig-Downie, Lecturer in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Course Number & Title: XESPM 15: Introduction to Environmental Science Grant Type: Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program (LTF)

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What Does Monty Hall Have to Do with Public Health?

In this lab activity, students played the Monty Hall game to test their probability intuition, followed by an analytical review and a concluding exercise connecting it to real-world applications. Author: Alejandro Schuler, Assistant Professor in Residence in Biostatistics Course Number & Title: PBHLTH 241: Intermediate Biostatistics for Public Health Grant Type: Teaching Excellence Colloquium (TEC)

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Discovery Project: Experiential Field Learning in Language Courses with Community Outreach

In this activity, students visited the East Asian Library on campus to practice formal speech with a Korean librarian and engage with collections. Author: Minsook Kim, Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Cultures Course Number & Title: K1BX: Elementary Korean for Heritage Speakers Grant Type: Berkeley Discover Departmental Innovation Award Program (Discovery Trailblazers)

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