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.

Mathematics

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

Languages and Literature

Environmental science

In this activity, students learn to define sustainability and apply this to a single Montreal neighbourhood.

Languages and Literature

Environmental science

In this semester-long activity, students visit a farm several times to engage in a critical analysis of that ecosystem.

STEM Mathematics

Languages and Literature

In this multiple-class activity, students build a toolkit of essay-writing skills through analyzing a short story text.

Environmental science

The aim of this project is to get students thinking about facts and concepts related to rivers in the field (in real life!).