Active Learning Activities

Navigating the Grey: Ethics in Nursing

In this card sorting activity, students create categories with words related to ethics in nursing.

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.

Safety First! Rank and Sort Case for Clinical Reasoning Skills

Case-based ranking & sorting activities based on pre-class quiz on exercise safety in a client with a cardiac condition.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Data Mining and Sorting: Scaffolding the Exploration of Scientific Articles

The purpose of this activity is to deepen students' understanding of cardiac pathophysiology

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Forget the Math! Draw Pictures to Learn the Wave Theory of Light

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Momentum Photoproject

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting

Problem Sorting Review