Activity setup
Activity steps
- Read instructions: Go through the instructions to understand the activity requirements. Note any guidelines or criteria.
- Read document and engage: Students will read the interactive document, highlighting and annotating key points about how walking influences mental clarity and creativity.
- Reflect on the material: Students will write a brief reflection summarizing what they've learned from the article
Learning Activities Used
Interactive Document
Student-Content engagement to stimulate student success
In this activity
This activity helps facilitate a flipped classroom approach to your teaching. When student engage with material prior to class there are several benefits:
- Prior to class, areas of the topic where students may struggle are outlined allowing in class time to be spent on relevant areas.
- Encourage students to learn from each other, ask each other questions and seek help from one another.
- In class time can be spent applying material, and exploring its real-world relevance.
- You can add a document, where you can thereafter add:
- Inline multiple choice or open answer questions
- Inline discussion prompts
- Opt for students to be able to start discussion threads where they can interact and ask each other questions.
- Opt for students to be able to ask multiple choice or open answer questions.
- Anonymity:
- Students won’t see other individual student answers to questions.
- Opt in for anonymity on discussion threads.
- Reflection
- Encourage students to reflect on their main take aways.
- Grading: This template is currently a formative assessment, you can opt for it to be a graded assignment if you want to encourage participation further.