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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Chemistry

Crash Course: Collision Theory

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

Health science

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Biology STEM

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

Humanities Social sciences

Can I Use the Internet?

Humanities Interdisciplinary

Peer Review

Health science STEM

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Languages

Rhetorical Strategies

Chemistry STEM

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Biology STEM

Biological Molecules