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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9 Activities

Humanities Social sciences

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

Cell Phone and tablet with programming code
Mathematics

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

Chemistry Biology

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Engineering STEM

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Chemistry STEM

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Chemistry STEM

Stereochemistry Activity

Engineering STEM

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Chemistry STEM

Limestone Rescue