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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Humanities Social sciences

Put Your Theory on Trial

Scaffolded debate that explores the nuances of a belief that the teacher has introduced.

Health science

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.

Health science Interdisciplinary

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

Biology STEM

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

STEM Biology Social sciences

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Humanities

Low Stakes Debate

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Applied arts STEM Health science Social sciences

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Health science STEM

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Humanities Social sciences

Ctrl + Alt + Del: PTSD and Neuroplasticity

Biology STEM

Organic Food vs GMOs

Health science STEM

Muscle Snowballs