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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Elementary school science teacher in biology class

Interdisciplinary

Snowball Starter: Goals of Science Education

In this activity, the snowball strategy links students' prior beliefs to a deeper inquiry of science education goals.

Social sciences Psychology

Who Are You? A Multidimensional Examination of Self-Concept

Students investigate their self-concept, compare it to a classmate, assess differences between self- and social perception.

Languages and Literature Interdisciplinary

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

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Snowball Starter: Goals of Science Education

Who Are You? A Multidimensional Examination of Self-Concept

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Categorizing for Review

Schools of Thought in Psychology

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

Sketching the graph of a curve

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Museum Tour

Elemental Superhero

Explosives Detective

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution