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Lara Grow – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2025
This article describes an in-class exercise that can be used when teaching zoning law to a Real Estate Law or Legal Environment of Business undergraduate course. The exercise requires students to utilize Salt Lake City's zoning code to locate the best site for a restaurant chain given certain locational and operational requirements, and to…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Undergraduate Students, Zoning, Real Estate
Blair, Carrie A.; Shaver, Kelly G. – Management Teaching Review, 2019
Extrinsic and intrinsic motivations are simple concepts that our students seem to quickly understand, yet few of our students grasp the complexity of sustaining intrinsic motivation. This exercise aims to help students better understand that complexity. Students are given a two-part scenario. In Part 1, the individual motives to innovate are…
Descriptors: Motivation, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Vignettes
McCubbins, O. P.; Paulsen, Thomas H.; Anderson, Ryan – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2018
While shown to be less effective than active learning strategies, traditional methods of content delivery in post-secondary classrooms are the most prominent. Flipped classrooms, an example of an active learning approach, have been shown to be effective in long-term student outcomes. Team-Based Learning (TBL), a specific application of the flipped…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Teamwork, Teaching Methods
Cruickshank, Heather; Fenner, Richard – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to examine how a number of key themes are introduced in the Master's programme in Engineering for Sustainable Development, at Cambridge University, through student-centred activities. These themes include dealing with complexity, uncertainty, change, other disciplines, people, environmental limits, whole life…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Assignments, Class Activities, Student Attitudes
Grace, Marcus – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
The conservation of biodiversity is an important socio-scientific issue that is often regarded as a precondition to sustainable development. The foundation for citizens' understanding of conservation issues can be laid down in formal school education. This research focuses on decision-making discussions about biological conservation issues among…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Conservation (Environment), Discussion Groups
Syracuse City School District, NY. – 1974
The mid-intermediate elementary level curriculum guide on consumerism is designed to help students better define their own value system, develop an improved decision-making procedure, evaluate alternatives in the marketplace, and understand their consumer rights and responsibilities. The guide contains five sections related to five major…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Consumer Education, Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides
Learning, 1992
Presents a handbook of activities to sharpen elementary students' observational and critical thinking skills as they monitor national, local, and classroom elections. Activities teach the steps of sound decision making. Students learn to set up complete classroom or schoolwide elections. A poster describes life in the White House. (SM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, Critical Thinking, Decision Making
Schultz, Jerelyn B., Ed.; And Others – 1980
The first part of a parenthood education curriculum series intended for use in home economics classrooms, this module focuses on the decision to parent with two major competencies as goals: the ability to appraise the variety of responsibilities involved in being a parent; and the ability to utilize the decision-making process in determining if…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Guides, Decision Making

Liao, Thomas T. – Simulation and Games, 1983
Describes the primary design criteria and the classroom activities involved in "The Yellow Light Problem," a minicourse on decision making in the secondary school Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA) program in California. Activities include lectures, discussions, science and math labs, computer labs, and development…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Decision Making, Instructional Systems
Ayers, Samuel J. – 1989
Second and third grade students used the creative problem solving strategy developed by Sidney Parnes and Alex Osborn in their social studies classes. The second graders, finding few biographies written for students reading on a first or second grade level, interviewed community members, collected photographs of them, and wrote their biographies,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making

Read, Simon – Economics, 1989
Describes a game that illustrates the effects of pricing on profit. Students compete against each other in an imaginary industry and become familiar with decision-making processes. Depicts the gameboard, how to make it, and how to use it. (GG)
Descriptors: Business Education, Class Activities, Decision Making, Economic Factors

Update on Law-Related Education, 1989
"Understanding Drugs" (Wichita, Kansas Police-School Liaison Program) presents a plan for helping students identify drugs and how they affect the individual. "What Does the Law Really Say?" (Legal Education for Youth Program, Orange County, California) outlines a lesson plan designed to enable students to apply the decision-making process to a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Decision Making, Drug Abuse, Drug Education
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. – 1987
Thirty-eight energy related classroom activities for sixth to twelfth grade are included in this document. The activities are based on the following conceptual themes: (1) energy is basic; (2) energy's usefulness is limited; (3) energy exchanges affect the environment; (4) energy conservation is essential; and (5) people can develop and share…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Class Activities, Concept Formation, Conservation Education
Bernhardt, Edna Erickson – 1975
The teaching module is part of a set designed to help educators infuse career education concepts into the existing curriculum. The module is organized to help students on the K-3 level develop awareness of the decision-making process. The first learning sequence of the module deals primarily with basic understandings and vocabulary related to…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Class Activities, Curriculum Guides
Strong, Brack – 1978
This packet is a career development teaching guide on decision-making developed for high school teachers. A brief introduction to skillful decision-making is followed by five lessons on decision-making. Each lesson includes one or more of the following: goal, behavioral objectives, teaching activities, and teaching procedures (includes content and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Choice, Career Development, Class Activities