Active Learning Activities

Navigating the Grey: Ethics in Nursing

In this card sorting activity, students create categories with words related to ethics in nursing.

Silent Discussion

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

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.

Safety First! Rank and Sort Case for Clinical Reasoning Skills

Case-based ranking & sorting activities based on pre-class quiz on exercise safety in a client with a cardiac condition.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Piece of Paper Question

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Momentum Photoproject

Problem Sorting