Active Learning Activities

Put Your Theory on Trial

Scaffolded debate that explores the nuances of a belief that the teacher has introduced.

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

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

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Categorizing for Review

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

From “yum” to “yuk”: a case in point… mutation

Sketching the graph of a curve

Protein Separation

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Biological Molecules

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Elemental Superhero

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring

Newton’s Third Law

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3