Active Learning Activities

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

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

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Categorizing for Review

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Projet Specific: Webzine

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Three-Tiered Writing

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Reflective Writing On Waves

What is Torque?

Explosives Detective

Home Wiring