Active Learning Activities

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

In groups, students explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in its application to workplace scenarios

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Sketching the graph of a curve

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Piece of Paper Question

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Muscle Snowballs