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.

Active Learning Activities

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Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

STEM Physics

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Biology Social sciences STEM

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

STEM Physics

Model Building

Students learn to build a conceptual model describing a situation involving an accelerating charged particle.

Social sciences

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Social sciences

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Social sciences

Action-Learning Sets

Social sciences

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

STEM Physics

Kinematics Concept Mapping

STEM Physics

Home Wiring

STEM Physics

Interacting Objects

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STEM Physics

Projectile Tracker

Students use the Tracker software to analyze projectile motion to determine which equations fit the plots produced.

STEM Physics

Energy Tracker

Students learn to analyze data using spreadsheet programs and gain a deeper understanding of conservation of energy.

STEM Physics

Problem Sorting Review

STEM Physics

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3