Students asking for a quiet week? Start class with a 5-minute reading task that follows up with a few reading comprehension and discussion questions. My students reported it was helpful for their understanding of sleep and neuroscience. We used this for my physiology class to link homeostasis (or endocrinology) with neuroscience.
Goal: Investigate how sleep deficit affects the structure and function of the human body
Features
Time: 5 min share — 15 minute discussion
Response sheets (2 per page)
Large print pages of the graphs
Challenge question: what’s another way we could interpret this? can we trust the evidence here? what other effects could these phenomena have?
Sources
(see doc)
more coming soon
Features
Time: 5 min share — 15 minute discussion
Response sheets (2 per page)
Challenge question: what’s another way we could interpret this?
Sources
Anscombe’s Quartet (wikipedia)
more coming soon
Features
Time: 5 min review — 15 minute discussion
4 tasks
Response sheets (6 per page), graphs (2 per page)
Challenge question: what else? why? how do we know?
