Active Learning Activities

The Amazing Race: An Ethical Quest

In this activity, teams of students race to complete a series of challenges related to ethics in nursing.

Safety First! Rank and Sort Case for Clinical Reasoning Skills

Case-based ranking & sorting activities based on pre-class quiz on exercise safety in a client with a cardiac condition.

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.

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

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

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

Can I Use the Internet?

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Students complete a grid that illustrates different life periods that reinforce gender narratives.

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Family Feud

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Race for the Hat!

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Systems Ball Toss

Piece of Paper Question

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Explosives Detective