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January 10, 2025January 10, 2025Environmental Science, Multi-Disciplinary, Public health, Social Sciences, STEM

What do NYC’s rising waters mean for us?

Sustainability Matters is a monthly show that explores climate change and its impact, renewableenergies, and sustainable practices in New York. The showrunners interview leading expertsacross diverse sustainability fields to showcase […]

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January 10, 2025January 10, 2025Humanities, Multi-Disciplinary, Social Sciences

Skimming: An In-class Reading Activity

For this in-class assignment, students skim several short articles and paraphrase the arguments in each of the articles, practicing their ability to discern the location of the arguments within a […]

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January 10, 2025January 10, 2025Humanities, Multi-Disciplinary, Social Sciences, STEM

Group Dialogues

Prior to class, based on readings and/or lecture materials, learners are asked to come up with 3 questions that they would like to ask their fellow learners. Learners are encouraged […]

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January 10, 2025January 10, 2025Chemistry, STEM

Colligative Properties Pre-Lab for General Chemistry

This assignment is meant to prime students understanding on Colligative Properties such as freezing point depression and molar mass. This assignment takes a traditional chemistry pre-lab assignment that typically include […]

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December 18, 2024December 18, 2024Political Science, Social Sciences, Uncategorized

Archiving New York Political Events

In this scaffolded assignment, students propose a topic related to New York City politics, visit an archive, and identify a few primary source documents that might help them formulate an […]

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December 18, 2024December 18, 2024Humanities, Philosophy

Final Paper Outline Peer Evaluation

Students are asked to complete their final paper outlines, with thesis statements, in advance, following the rubric, and bring the outline of the final paper to class. They will then […]

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January 11, 2024January 11, 2024Psychology, Social Sciences

Social Psychology & Comics

Students in psychology courses are often required to complete several writing assignments. In a Psychology 101 course at John Jay, students were assigned 500 word (2 page) reflections papers – […]

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January 11, 2024January 11, 2024Environmental Science, STEM

Environmental Justice Case Study: Water

How did lead get into Flint’s Water? This case study is designed as an active learning unit that allows students to work individually and collaboratively to solve problems about the […]

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January 11, 2024January 11, 2024Multi-Disciplinary, Social Sciences

Making Memes

The Meme Assignment was developed by Dr. Shawna Brandle for her American Goverment class at Kingsborough Community College. The assignment was included and referenced in the 2022 Transformative Learning in […]

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May 17, 2023May 17, 2023Anthropology, Social Sciences

Make the Familiar Strange

Students write a 1-page description of a common human practice as if they have never seen or heard of it before. Students are told to pretend they are an alien […]

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