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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STEM Mathematics

Two-stage Testing for Second-year Math Students

Students are given four 2-stage tests throughout a semester; 1st stage written individually, 2nd students work in groups.

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Social sciences Humanities

Put Your Theory on Trial

Scaffolded debate that explores the nuances of a belief that the teacher has introduced.

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Languages and Literature

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

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

Mathematics

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

STEM Biology

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

Social sciences Humanities

Can I Use the Internet?

STEM Mathematics

An Abundance of Bells

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

STEM Engineering

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Languages and Literature

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Languages and Literature

Rhetorical Strategies

STEM Mathematics

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

STEM Biology

Protein Separation

STEM Biology

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

STEM Biology

Experimental Design in Neurobiology