This team designed an icebreaker activity that uses content-focused strategy to form groups on first day of the class. Check out this activity, if you would like to form groups, and allow students to compare and contrast between immune system diseases and diseases of the other body systems, or immune cells and other cells in the body.
Adam Kleinschmit
Professor, University of Dubuque, Dubuque, IA.
Rebecca Lynn Sparks-Thissen
Associate Professor of Clinical Immunology, Microbiology, Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, IN.
Sumali Pandey
Sumali serves as the Principal Investigator for ImmunoReach and is an Associate Professor at Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN.
Citations:
- Kleinschmit, A. J., Sparks-Thissen R.L. and Pandey S. (2025). A group-forming course content-focused icebreaker for life science classrooms. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00173-24
- Kleinschmit A. J., Chung D. and Parker C. T. (2020). An Interactive Classroom Icebreaker and Parting-Ways Activity to Introduce and Review the Effector Functions of Cellular Players Associated with the Immune Response. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v21i2.1915