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.

Active Learning Activities

16 Results

STEM Biology

Hemoglobin Hustle: An Adaptation of Race for the Hat

Used the Race for the Hat activity to create a Jeopardy-style session on blood & blood disorders for a pathophysiology class.

Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

STEM Biology

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

STEM Biology Health science

Call Me By My Organelle

In this single-class activity, students use cards to match cells with their organelles and functions.

STEM Biology Chemistry Engineering

Building Effective Teams

STEM Biology

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

STEM Biology

Cytoskeletal Proteins in Amoeba

Taking the role of a biologist, students statistically determine how different drug treatments can affect amoeba cell shape.

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STEM Biology

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

STEM Biology

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

STEM Biology

Brazil Nut Tree

Students take on the role of ecologists, tasked with saving the Brazil nut tree from the effects of deforestation.

STEM Biology

Does X Associate with Y?

STEM Biology

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

STEM Biology

Biological Molecules

STEM Biology

Nucleic Acids

This is an application-based activity that draws upon lesson material students have seen in previous classes.