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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15 Activities

Languages and Literature

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Social sciences Psychology

Love at First Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Students create a dating profile that highlights the key feature of the major Abnormality Models in Psychology.

Biology Social sciences STEM

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

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

Social sciences

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Social sciences

Gender and Job Inequality

Social sciences

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Social sciences

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Languages and Literature

Dictation: Read and Run

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Languages and Literature

Rhetorical Strategies

Social sciences

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Applied arts

National Building Code Jeopardy

General

Race for the Hat!