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.

Applied arts

Students use visual thinking to diagram / illustrate a subject with the only criteria being they have expert knowledge of it.

Social sciences

In this test review activity, students create questions, exchange them with a peer, and answer each other's questions.

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Students gain experience with a model of writing which employs Peer Assessment as the Active Learning strategy.

Social sciences

In this version of a gallery walk, students create mind maps, showcase them in the class, and peer-review each other's work.

STEM Engineering

This activity's goal is to familiarize students with the peer review process and teach them how to accept peer criticism.