WCC Teaching Materials Collection

Chemistry and Cell Review for Microbiology
Debbie Lancaster, Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom
Basic Chemistry and Cell Biology are two subjects that are reviewed in Introduction to Microbiology. These two activities are both designed to have the students actively participate in the review processes and to be able to relate the information to a new area of study, microbiology.

3 Part Calendar Assignment for Introductory Computer Science Courses - Building a meaningful, useful, long term project
Ryan Parsons, Whatcom Community College in collaboration with Brody Coleman, Whatcom Community College ,
This 3 part assignment is designed to be worked on over the entire quarter for an introductory computer science course. The end result is to create a calendar program that has a visual display and several different functionalities, allowing the students to demonstrate many core programming skills while taking ownership of their own large project.

Mystery Boxes: Exploring the Process of Science
This page is authored by Nathan Rice, Whatcom Community College, based on an original activity by Kaatje Kraft, Whatcom Community College. ,
In this activity, students will work in groups to follow the steps of the scientific method to investigate the unknown contents and internal structure of sealed boxes. They will generate questions and hypotheses and then test those hypotheses using their senses and a few tools. Then they will share their conclusions with the class and reevaluate their conclusions after peer review.

Knowledge Survey for Basic College Mathematics
Jody DeWilde, Whatcom Community College
Knowledge survey for a basic college math course (pre-algebra) to be used to inform instructors to students prior knowledge and help students prepare for exams.

Wax Paper Folding - Discovering the Conic Sections
Leslie Glen, Whatcom Community College
Students fold "patty paper" to create the conic sections, and in the process, discover their properties.

Introductions to Statistics
Carrie Muir, Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom
This is an activity to help students learn about different statistical sampling techniques, and to consider practical implementation issues.

Ecology Modules
John Rousseau, Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom
The ecology section of a year-long introductory biology course was reworked from a lecture style format to a small-group activity format that involved both in-class and field activities.

Student Directed Review
kimberly reeves, Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom
Incorporation of a student generated whiteboard review session, whereby groups created critical thinking questions for the other peer groups in the class to answer, generated an increase in exam average by 10.25 points.

Ecoconcepts Illustrated: Art Projects to Understand Environmental Science Vocabulary
This page contains an original activity for Environmental Science 100 and the activity was created by Wendy Borgesen, Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, WA. ,

Knowledge Survey of Probability in Statistics
Wendi Davis, Whatcom Community College
This activity is intended for any sized Introductory Statistics course where students are going to be learning about basic probability. In this activity students take a knowledge survey on probability where they say whether they COULD answer the questions and with what degree of confidence.