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.

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Languages and Literature

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Languages and Literature

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Biology Chemistry

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.

STEM Chemistry

Active Learning Activities

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Silent Discussion

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Pratique d’écriture

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Engineering Ethics

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Piece of Paper Question

Explosives Detective