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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17 Activities

Health science

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

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

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.

Physics STEM

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Physics STEM

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Applied arts STEM Health science Social sciences

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Health science STEM

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Languages

Pratique d’écriture

Languages

Rhetorical Strategies

Biology STEM

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Physics STEM

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Physics STEM

Reflective Writing On Waves

Chemistry STEM

Explosives Detective

Physics STEM

Home Wiring

Physics STEM

Newton’s Third Law

Physics STEM

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3