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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14 Activities

Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Young university students studying with computer in cafe. Group of people in campus library. College teenager using laptop at table. Group study for school assignment.
Psychology

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

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

Biology Social sciences STEM

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Social sciences

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Social sciences

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Social sciences

Action-Learning Sets

Social sciences

Museum Tour

STEM Physics

Kinematics Concept Mapping

STEM Physics

Home Wiring

STEM Physics

Interacting Objects

STEM Physics

Problem Sorting Review