Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Navigating the Grey: Ethics in Nursing

In this card sorting activity, students create categories with words related to ethics in nursing.

Safety First! Rank and Sort Case for Clinical Reasoning Skills

Case-based ranking & sorting activities based on pre-class quiz on exercise safety in a client with a cardiac condition.

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

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

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

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out Membrane Transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

An Abundance of Bells

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Building Effective Teams

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

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

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Elemental Superhero

Momentum Photoproject

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Home Wiring

Muscle Snowballs

Problem Sorting