Active Learning Activities

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

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

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

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

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.

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Can I Use the Internet?

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Gender and Job Inequality

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Pratique d’écriture

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Identity Dot Exercise

Rhetorical Strategies

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Explosives Detective

Momentum Photoproject

Home Wiring