Activity 1: Project Based Learning

Class : General Biology – Exploring Human Biology (Chapter 37 – 43)

Description : in this project, a class will be divided into 9 groups of 2~3 students each. There are 9 different topics for each group : Integument system, respiratory system, circulatory system, digestive system, excretory system, immune system, nervous system, endocrine system and reproductive system. Students of each group will be in charge of 10 to 15 minutes of class time as instructors, prepare and present their assigned topic to the class. You may use power points, printed lecture notes, posters, etc in your presentation. (If anything unusual is needed for the presentation, it needs to be discussed with me first)

Evaluation : your teaching presentation will be carefully evaluated based on a provided grading rubric. Every student in a class will actively participate in the evaluation and write a constructive feedback for speakers. Each speaker gets his/her own grade from this project and it is the sum of the average score from the students’ evaluation and teacher’s evaluation. (the outliers from the students evaluation will be removed from calculating the average score) Every student need to write a constructive feedback for each speaker and those who write best (well-observed and critically pointed) feedback will get extra credit for the project. Each student speaker will get all the feedback (including the instructor’s) at the end of the project, and write a self reflection about one’s own presentation.

Grading Rubric