Active Learning Activities

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

These gamified activities will help sensitize students to the nuances of diction and allow them to work together.

From Bauhaus to Britney: A Catchall Timeline

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

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.

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

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Can I Use the Internet?

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

5 Senses Lab

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Students complete a grid that illustrates different life periods that reinforce gender narratives.

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Durkheim Suicide: Functionalist and Conflict Theory

Rédaction d’un Paragraphe de Texte Expressif

Mouse Coat Colour

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Pratique d’écriture

Fireweed and Seals, oh my! Mini Cases in Population Ecology

Let There Be Light! ATP and Cellular Respiration

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

AR’e You Talking to Me? Mini Case Study in Cell Signalling

Now you see me, now you don’t: Fluorescent tagging membranes