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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Biology Health science

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

Languages 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

Social sciences Humanities

Can I Use the Internet?

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review

Interdisciplinary

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Social sciences Applied arts STEM Health science

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Languages

Projet Specific: Webzine

STEM Biology Chemistry Engineering

Building Effective Teams

STEM Biology

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

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STEM Biology

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

Languages

Three-Tiered Writing

Languages

Dictation: Read and Run

Languages

Pratique d’écriture

Languages

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

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STEM Biology

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

STEM Biology

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

Languages

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Languages

Rhetorical Strategies

Languages

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Languages

Putting the “You” in education: Using self-reflections for learning

Languages

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Social sciences Humanities

Ctrl + Alt + Del: PTSD and Neuroplasticity

STEM Biology

Organic Food vs GMOs