Active Learning Activities

Active learning activities are tailored to specific learning outcomes and content. They incorporate one or more of the evidence-based strategies. Structured to expose their theoretical underpinnings, the activities can be used by practitioners and researchers alike.

Active Learning Activities

25 Results

Biology STEM

Hemoglobin Hustle: An Adaptation of Race for the Hat

Used the Race for the Hat activity to create a Jeopardy-style session on blood & blood disorders for a pathophysiology class.

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Health science STEM

Safety Prevention in Each Developmental Stage

In this roll the dice game, students will identify injuries to be awarded points. The team with the most points wins.

Interdisciplinary

Library Scavenger Hunt: Let the Race Begin

This activity is designed to familiarise students with library search engines, library spaces and APA/MLA reference guides.

Interdisciplinary

Find Someone Who… An Icebreaker With Purpose

In this activity, students try to find someone for each list item. Items highlight key issues explored in the course.

Relay runner on starting line
Health science

The Amazing Race: An Ethical Quest

In this activity, teams of students race to complete a series of challenges related to ethics in nursing.

Physics

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

Health science

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

Health science Interdisciplinary

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

Physics STEM

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Biology STEM

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Biology Health science STEM

Call Me By My Organelle

In this single-class activity, students use cards to match cells with their organelles and functions.

Physics STEM

Circuits: Card Sorting With Multiple Representations (E&M)

Students develop their ability to reason about physics concepts in terms of multiple representations, beyond just equations.

Physics STEM

Electrostatics: Card Sorting With Mutiple Representations (E&M)

Students associate configurations of charges with their characteristics from word, diagram & graph representations.

Chemistry STEM

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Health science STEM

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

General Languages and Literature

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

This activity has students challenge the literal meaning of a text (ie. the supernatural explanation for a murder).

Chemistry STEM

The Matching Game

Students use a matching game to pair chemical compounds and their characteristics using a set of question cards.

Health science STEM

The Amazing Ethics Race

In this activity seminar, teams of students race to complete a series of ethic challenges relating to academics and nursing.

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Biology STEM

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

Biology STEM

Brazil Nut Tree

Students take on the role of ecologists, tasked with saving the Brazil nut tree from the effects of deforestation.

General

Race for the Hat!

Environmental science

Systems Ball Toss

Engineering STEM

Engineering Ethics Debate

Chemistry STEM

Explosives Detective