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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Interdisciplinary

Snowball Starter: Goals of Science Education

In this activity, the snowball strategy links students' prior beliefs to a deeper inquiry of science education goals.

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Psychology Social sciences

Who Are You? A Multidimensional Examination of Self-Concept

Students investigate their self-concept, compare it to a classmate, assess differences between self- and social perception.

Physics STEM

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Students complete a grid that illustrates different life periods that reinforce gender narratives.

Health science STEM

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Chemistry STEM

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Physics STEM

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Biology STEM

Cycles of Matter

Health science STEM

Muscle Snowballs

Physics STEM

Interacting Objects