Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Navigating the Grey: Ethics in Nursing

In this card sorting activity, students create categories with words related to ethics in nursing.

Role Reveal 201: Exploring Interdisciplinary Collaboration

In teams, students from each discipline complete a patient interview then contrast their approaches.

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

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

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out Membrane Transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

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

How to Write Reading Annotations

This activity helps students improve their quality of reading annotations using platforms like Perusall.

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Durkheim Suicide: Functionalist and Conflict Theory

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

Disappearing Sea Otters

Students take the role of an ecologist and try to analyze species behaviours and predict population change.

How to Read a Research Article

Students learn how to read a research article and what information is contained in each section of the article.