Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

The Heart of the Matter: Exploring Exercise in Cardiac Disease

Before class, students read an article and gather 5 elements. In class, they "pool" findings and sort into categories.

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

From “Yum” to “Yuk”: A Case in Point… Mutation

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Does X Associate with Y?

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Biological Molecules

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Muscle Snowballs

Interacting Objects