Active Learning Activities

Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: Construct a Species

Students construct a fictional animal species by selecting traits related to sexual reproduction.

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

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

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

this activity is for students to design high level questions related to course material as a review and application exercise.

Call Me By My Organelle

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

Building Effective Teams

The Matching Game

Students use a matching game to pair chemical compounds and their characteristics using a set of question cards.

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

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

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

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Stereochemistry Activity

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Students collaborate and learn from each other on how to interpret molecules in 3D based on molecular drawings.

Does X Associate with Y?

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

Biological Molecules

Nucleic Acids

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

Cycles of Matter

Students are assigned to groups and presented with a take-home reading assignment on the transformation of matter and energy.

Limestone Rescue

Elemental Superhero

Students select a periodic table chemical element, research it, then create a comic book character based on the element.

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution