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.

Languages and Literature General Interdisciplinary

Students learn to apply the rules for integration, punctuation, referencing and formatting of direct quotes in their writing.

STEM Mathematics

Students are given four 2-stage tests throughout a semester; 1st stage written individually, 2nd students work in groups.

Interdisciplinary Health science

In teams, students from each discipline complete a patient interview then contrast their approaches.

STEM Mathematics

The aim of this activity is to demonstrate that many continuous data of nature and psychology follow a normal distribution.

Interdisciplinary STEM Physics

This activity helps students improve their quality of reading annotations using platforms like Perusall.

Interdisciplinary

The overall aim of this activity is to help students learn new, efficient and flexible ways to collect a variety of datasets.

Social sciences History

Students interview two members of their family to collect information about their family history and present it in class.