Active Learning Activities

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

PharmaPuzzle Relay Race: Match the Meds and Win!

In this fast-paced relay, teams match categories of information to finish first and win the game

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

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.

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

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Can I Use the Internet?

Categorizing for Review

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Systems Ball Toss

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Piece of Paper Question

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Cycles of Matter

Explosives Detective

Home Wiring

Interacting Objects

Muscle Snowballs