Active Learning Activities

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

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

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Pratique d’écriture

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

Sketching the graph of a curve

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Protein Separation

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Peer Review Calibration and Constructive Feedback Workshop

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring

Newton’s Third Law