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 and Literature

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Cell Phone and tablet with programming code

Mathematics

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

Physics

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Social sciences Psychology

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

In groups, students explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in its application to workplace scenarios

Languages and Literature 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

Humanities

Low Stakes Debate

Health science Social sciences Applied arts STEM

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Social sciences

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Social sciences

Gender and Job Inequality

Languages and Literature

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

STEM Physics

Kinematics Concept Mapping

STEM Physics

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

STEM Physics

Home Wiring

STEM Physics

Problem Sorting

STEM Physics

Problem Sorting Review