Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Love at First Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Students create a dating profile that highlights the key feature of the major Abnormality Models in Psychology.

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

Dictation: Read and Run

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Pratique d’écriture

Fireweed and Seals, oh my! Mini Cases in Population Ecology

The Genetics of PTC Sensitivity and Tongue Rolling

Cloning of the Human Insulin Gene

Rhetorical Strategies

National Building Code Jeopardy

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Systems Ball Toss

Engineering Ethics

Biological Molecules

Phylogeny