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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Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Cell Phone and tablet with programming code
Mathematics

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

STEM Physics

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

These mini-video projects require students to engage with course concepts and make connections to the world in which we live.

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

STEM Mathematics

Sketching the graph of a curve

STEM Physics

Forget the Math! Draw Pictures to Learn the Wave Theory of Light

STEM Physics

What is Torque?

STEM Physics

Forces Scavenger Hunt

STEM Physics

Newton’s Third Law