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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Interdisciplinary Languages

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

Chemistry

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

Physics STEM

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Physics STEM

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Physics STEM

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Biology STEM

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

Physics STEM

Two Stage Quiz

Engineering STEM

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Biology Health science STEM

Case Study: Anophthalmia

Biology Health science STEM

Case Study: Malignant hyperthermia

Biology Health science STEM

Case Study: Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

Biology Health science STEM

Case Study: Discovering the Structure of DNA

Applied arts STEM Health science Social sciences

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Chemistry STEM

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Languages

Projet Specific: Webzine

Biology Chemistry Engineering STEM

Building Effective Teams

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Biology STEM

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

Languages

Three-Tiered Writing

Languages

Dictation: Read and Run

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Languages

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Languages

Rhetorical Strategies

Chemistry STEM

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Applied arts

National Building Code Jeopardy