Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

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

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Case Study: Anophthalmia

Case Study: Malignant hyperthermia

Case Study: Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

Case Study: Discovering the Structure of DNA

Mouse Coat Colour

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

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Biological Molecules

Phylogeny

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Momentum Photoproject

Home Wiring

Problem Sorting