Active Learning Activities

100 Years of Work

This is a jigsaw activity where students map key developments in workplace design over 100 years.

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

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.

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

These mini-video projects require students to engage with course concepts and make connections to the world in which we live.

Projet Specific: Webzine

Three-Tiered Writing

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

What is Torque?

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring

Muscle Snowballs