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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Languages and Literature

Silent Discussion

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

Biology Chemistry

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.

STEM Physics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Social sciences Humanities

Can I Use the Internet?

Social sciences STEM Biology

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Humanities

Low Stakes Debate

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

STEM Physics

Two Stage Quiz

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Students complete a grid that illustrates different life periods that reinforce gender narratives.

Social sciences

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Social sciences

Gender and Job Inequality

Social sciences

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Languages and Literature

Three-Tiered Writing

Social sciences

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Languages and Literature

Homophones Talent Show

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Languages and Literature

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Social sciences

Identity Dot Exercise

Languages and Literature

Rhetorical Strategies

Social sciences

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Social sciences Humanities

Ctrl + Alt + Del: PTSD and Neuroplasticity

Social sciences

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

STEM Engineering

Engineering Ethics

STEM Physics

Circus Launch Clicker Questions