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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Physics

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

Interdisciplinary Health science

Team Dynamics Rx (Part 2): Motivating Change For Better Health

In teams, students learn through role play to effectively motivate a client to want to change

Interdisciplinary Health science

Team Dynamics Rx (Part 1): Building Trust for Better Patient Outcomes

In teams, students learn through role play to effectively work together as a team and to build trust with a patient

Interdisciplinary Health science

Collaborative VeinVentures: Mastering Blood Draws Together

In teams, students read through a script, role play drawing blood, and discuss issues that arise between professions

STEM Physics

Active Learning Activities

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Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

Team Dynamics Rx (Part 2): Motivating Change For Better Health

Team Dynamics Rx (Part 1): Building Trust for Better Patient Outcomes

Collaborative VeinVentures: Mastering Blood Draws Together

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Pratique d’écriture

Rhetorical Strategies

Putting the “You” in education: Using self-reflections for learning

Sketching the graph of a curve

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

Reflective Writing On Waves

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Home Wiring

Newton’s Third Law