Active Learning Activities

Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: Construct a Species

Students construct a fictional animal species by selecting traits related to sexual reproduction.

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

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

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

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.

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Sketching the graph of a curve

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Protein Separation

The Ideal Classroom

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Dark Lords IF-AT

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Cycles of Matter

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Home Wiring

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law