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.

Physics

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

STEM Physics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

STEM Physics

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Social sciences

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Languages and Literature General

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

This activity has students challenge the literal meaning of a text (ie. the supernatural explanation for a murder).

Social sciences

Durkheim Suicide: Functionalist and Conflict Theory

In this activity, students compare 4 psychological perceptive of suicide (anomic, fatalistic, egoistic, and altruistic).

Social sciences History

Reflective Reading on Islam

Students use homework questions to prompt a deeper engagement with the reading material to generate better class discussion.

Social sciences

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

STEM Physics

Reflective Writing On Waves