The Central Dogma of Biology... for Kids!
One assignment in HONORS 205 was to write an expository piece on an advanced topic we know lots about. The catch: write it so a third grader could understand everything. This forced us to evaluate how we disseminate academic information and how to reach common knowledge with individuals of widely different learning backgrounds. I wrote about the central dogma of biology, and though it proved challenging, the assignment prepared me for later tutoring and coursework in which this kind a knowledge barrier would come up again.