Active Learning Activities

Find Someone Who… An Icebreaker With Purpose

In this activity, students try to find someone for each list item. Items highlight key issues explored in the course.

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Love at First Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Students create a dating profile that highlights the key feature of the major Abnormality Models in Psychology.

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Dictation: Read and Run

Pratique d’écriture

Identity Dot Exercise

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

National Building Code Jeopardy

Race for the Hat!