Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Water rat - Photo by Matt Seymour, Unsplash.
STEM Biology

Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: Construct a Species

Students construct a fictional animal species by selecting traits related to sexual reproduction.

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 Health science

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

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 Biology

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

Social sciences STEM Biology

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

STEM Biochemistry

Blended Learning

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Languages and Literature

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Social sciences Applied arts STEM Health science

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Languages and Literature

Three-Tiered Writing

STEM Biology

Mouse Coat Colour

Languages and Literature

Homophones Talent Show

STEM Biology

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

STEM Biology

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

STEM Biology

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

STEM Biology

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

STEM Biology

What numbers tell us about enzyme inhibition

STEM Biology

PCR CAG HUNTING’ton

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STEM Biology

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

STEM Biology

From “yum” to “yuk”: a case in point… mutation

STEM Biology

It’s All Hormonal: A Class Activity on Cushing’s Syndrome