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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18 Activities

Languages and Literature

Silent Discussion

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

Elementary school science teacher in biology class
Interdisciplinary

Snowball Starter: Goals of Science Education

In this activity, the snowball strategy links students' prior beliefs to a deeper inquiry of science education goals.

Interdisciplinary Health science

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

STEM Physics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

STEM Biology

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

STEM Biology

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Social sciences STEM Biology

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

STEM Health science

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Social sciences

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Social sciences

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Languages and Literature

Pratique d’écriture

Social sciences

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Student writing on a piece of paper
STEM Engineering

Piece of Paper Question

STEM Physics

Reflective Writing On Waves

STEM Health science

Muscle Snowballs

STEM Physics

Problem Sorting Review

STEM Physics

Interacting Objects

STEM Physics

Newton’s Third Law