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

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.

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Can I Use the Internet?

Categorizing for Review

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Building Effective Teams

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Identity Dot Exercise

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Reflective Writing On Waves

What is Torque?

Elemental Superhero

Explosives Detective

Momentum Photoproject