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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Chemistry

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

Health science

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

STEM Physics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

STEM Biology

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

Social sciences Humanities

Can I Use the Internet?

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review

STEM Health science

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

STEM Biology

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Languages

Pratique d’écriture

Photo by Samuel Austin on Unsplash

STEM Biology

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

STEM Biology

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

Languages

Rhetorical Strategies

Languages

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Languages

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

STEM Biology

Does X Associate with Y?

STEM Engineering

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Student writing on a piece of paper

STEM Engineering

Piece of Paper Question

STEM Biology

Biological Molecules

STEM Physics

Kinematics Concept Mapping

STEM Biology

Cycles of Matter

STEM Health science

Muscle Snowballs

STEM Health science

Muscle Videos

STEM Chemistry

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution