Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Love at First Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Students create a dating profile that highlights the key feature of the major Abnormality Models in Psychology.

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

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Categorizing for Review

Peer Review

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Projet Specific: Webzine

Building Effective Teams

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Three-Tiered Writing

Mouse Coat Colour

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Homophones Talent Show

Dictation: Read and Run

Pratique d’écriture

Fireweed and Seals, oh my! Mini Cases in Population Ecology

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

AR’e You Talking to Me? Mini Case Study in Cell Signalling

Now you see me, now you don’t: Fluorescent tagging membranes