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.

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Chemistry

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

Health science

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

Health science

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

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

STEM Physics

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

STEM Biology

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

STEM Chemistry

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

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STEM Biology

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

STEM Biology

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

STEM Physics

Kinematics Concept Mapping

STEM Chemistry

Explosives Detective

STEM Physics

Home Wiring

STEM Health science

Muscle Snowballs

STEM Physics

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3