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.

Applied arts

Students use visual thinking to diagram / illustrate a subject with the only criteria being they have expert knowledge of it.

Social sciences

In this test review activity, students create questions, exchange them with a peer, and answer each other's questions.

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Students gain experience with a model of writing which employs Peer Assessment as the Active Learning strategy.

STEM Chemistry

Students learn how to problem solve and review their peers in a low stakes situation (no grades).

Social sciences

In this version of a gallery walk, students create mind maps, showcase them in the class, and peer-review each other's work.

STEM Chemistry

Using cards in a "Chemicard' deck, students determine which ionic compounds are most likely to form.