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.

Health science

Before class, students read an article and gather 5 elements. In class, they "pool" findings and sort into categories.

STEM Health science

The purpose of this activity is to deepen students' understanding of cardiac pathophysiology.

Interdisciplinary Health science

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

Interdisciplinary Humanities

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

Social sciences

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.