WCC Teaching Materials Collection

Using Learning Progressions, Knowledge Surveys, and Post-Exam Reflections to Drive Student Ownership over Learning
Hilary Engebretson, Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom
A series of assignments designed to prompt students to take greater ownership over their own learning by employing metacognitive strategies.

Using Field Data and a Hybrid Jigsaw to Represent the Geologic History of the Pacific Northwest
Bernie Dougan, Whatcom Community College
This hybrid jigsaw activity enhances a typical field trip and geologic history paper with small group and peer teaching activities. Ultimately, the goals are to deepen the level of understanding and improves student's ability to communicate details of geologic history.

Translating English to Algebra, a Modified Gallery Walk for Online Students
Jessica Conner, Whatcom Community College
An online assignment based on a gallery walk where students read, write, identify, translate, and use phrases that indicate the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.

Pre-lab 1: Students Ideas about the Relationship between Position-time and Velocity-time Graphs
Tran Phung, Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom
Student Initial Ideas about Position-time and Velocity-time Graphs

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.

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.

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. ,

Online forum to explore applications of Rational equations
Heidi Ypma, Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom
This activity allows students to explore in depth a limited number of applications of rational equations in an algebra course.

Course Summary Portfolio
Yumi Clark, Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom