Active Learning Activities

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

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.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Categorizing for Review

Peer Review

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

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

Building Effective Teams

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Identity Dot Exercise

Action-Learning Sets

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Sketching the graph of a curve

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Family Feud

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Peer Review Calibration and Constructive Feedback Workshop

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings