Active Learning Activities

Learning in Everyday Life

In this integrative assignment, students analyze their everyday activities through the lens of various learning theories.

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

Who Are You? A Multidimensional Examination of Self-Concept

Students investigate their self-concept, compare it to a classmate, assess differences between self- and social perception.

Love at First Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Students create a dating profile that highlights the key feature of the major Abnormality Models in Psychology.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

In groups, students explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in its application to workplace scenarios

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

An Abundance of Bells

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Gender and Job Inequality

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Action-Learning Sets

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Sketching the graph of a curve

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Family Feud

National Building Code Jeopardy

Mass of A Car

Reflective Writing On Waves

What is Torque?

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Newton’s Third Law