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

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

These gamified activities will help sensitize students to the nuances of diction and allow them to work together.

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Social sciences Psychology

Learning in Everyday Life

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

Applied arts

From Bauhaus to Britney: A Catchall Timeline

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

Young university students studying with computer in cafe. Group of people in campus library. College teenager using laptop at table. Group study for school assignment.

Psychology

Sensation and Perception Lab

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

Social sciences Psychology

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

Active Learning Activities

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Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

Learning in Everyday Life

From Bauhaus to Britney: A Catchall Timeline

Sensation and Perception Lab

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Categorizing for Review

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Gender and Job Inequality

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Action-Learning Sets

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

Museum Tour

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

The Ideal Classroom

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Mass of A Car

Problem Sorting Review

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3