These lively and stimulating ideas for use in and out of class reinforce active learning. The activities apply to individual or group projects.

Dawson_Student Handout_01-15(Section 1).pdf

Activity 1: Distinguishing between primary and secondary sources

Activity 2: Finding and using primary sources

Activity 4: Assessing prior experience and learning

Activity 5: Reflecting on your inquiry skills

Activity 6: Using the internet for background research

Activity 8: Recognizing statistics, facts, arguments and opinions

Activity 9: Discovering questionable statistics published online

Activity 10: Managing critiques and reviews

Activity 11: Critiquing quantitative research papers

Activity 12: Critiquing qualitative research papers

Activity 13: Evaluating science in the media

Activity 14: Recognizing media and political bias

Activity 15: Recognizing research(er) bias