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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Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Social sciences Applied arts Health science

Solving World Issues: One Smartphone at a Time

The purpose of this activity is to familiarize students with the potential of online tools for problem-solving.

Engineering STEM Biology Chemistry

Building Effective Teams

STEM Chemistry

The Right Tool for the Right Job

This activity encourages students to consider the nature of a chemistry problem and to identify the tools to solve it.

STEM Chemistry

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

Social sciences

Action-Learning Sets

Social sciences

Defining a Definition

In this single-class activity, students practice problem-solving related to definitions.

Applied arts

Interior Design – Library Design

STEM Chemistry

Chemicards

Using cards in a "Chemicard' deck, students determine which ionic compounds are most likely to form.

STEM Chemistry

Elemental Superhero