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.

Languages and Literature

This peer-review activity for English 101 aims to help students improve their essays, but also to develop evaluation skills.

Social sciences Humanities

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

Applied arts

Students map key movements in Architecture and Design alongside social, political, artistic, economic, and tech milestones.

Interdisciplinary Health science

In teams, students from each discipline complete a patient interview then contrast their approaches.

Physics Interdisciplinary STEM

This activity helps students improve their quality of reading annotations using platforms like Perusall.

Humanities

Environmental science

In this activity, students learn to define sustainability and apply this to a single Montreal neighbourhood.

Environmental science

The aim of this project is to get students thinking about facts and concepts related to rivers in the field (in real life!).

STEM Biology

STEM Physics