The Internet-Still a Teaching Tool
Quinebaug Valley Technology Showcase - 6/6/2003

Generating Discussion

OK, you come back from break an hour and forty five minutes into a three hour class. Perhaps you just show the returning students the fat rat.

	Rat with a Damaged VMH: When a particular section of the hypothalamus, called the ventromedial hypothalamus, is destroyed, rats will eat until they become obese-but only if the food is appetizing. This rat tipped the scales at 1080 grams, or almost 2½ pounds! (The pointer has gone completely around the dial and registers an additional 80 grams.)
	From Hockenbury & Hockenbury, Psychology 2nd edition (Worth Publishers, 2000)

Or perhaps you put up a more substantial list of links. You can discuss the content and credibility of a site from the list, then send the students home to analyze one of the others.

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