Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

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

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.

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

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

Can I Use the Internet?

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Case Study: Anophthalmia

Case Study: Malignant hyperthermia

Case Study: Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

Case Study: Discovering the Structure of DNA

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

Mouse Coat Colour

Dictation: Read and Run

Fireweed and Seals, oh my! Mini Cases in Population Ecology

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

The Genetics of PTC Sensitivity and Tongue Rolling

Cloning of the Human Insulin Gene

Rhetorical Strategies

Race for the Hat!

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Biological Molecules

Phylogeny