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.

Biology Environmental science Geography

A self-guided walk exploring how – and why – Earth changed over its 4.6 billion year history.

Social sciences Humanities

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

Applied arts

Students map key movements in Architecture and Design alongside social, political, artistic, economic, and tech milestones.

Interdisciplinary Health science

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

Interdisciplinary STEM Physics

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

Humanities

The aim of this activity is to help students understand the rationalist concerns about the use of our experience and senses.

Interdisciplinary

The overall aim of this activity is to help students learn new, efficient and flexible ways to collect a variety of datasets.

Applied arts

Social sciences Humanities

STEM Biology

STEM Biology