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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Languages Interdisciplinary

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

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.

Biology Chemistry

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Social sciences Humanities

Can I Use the Internet?

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Social sciences

Schools of Thought in Psychology

STEM Health science

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Languages

Rhetorical Strategies

STEM Chemistry

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

STEM Chemistry

Elemental Superhero

STEM Chemistry

Explosives Detective