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

15 Results

Biology STEM

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.

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Biology STEM

Electron Odyssey: Journey through the Mitochondria’s Electron Transport Chain

Students play the roles of protein complexes to see how electrons, protons, and energy moves through the ETC to produce ATP.

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Biology STEM

Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: Construct a Species

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

Health science Biology

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

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

Biology STEM

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

Mathematics STEM

An Abundance of Bells

Biology Health science STEM

Call Me By My Organelle

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

Biology STEM

Disappearing Sea Otters

Students take the role of an ecologist and try to analyze species behaviours and predict population change.

Mathematics STEM

Sketching the graph of a curve

Biology STEM

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

Physics STEM

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Biology STEM

Nucleic Acids

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

Biology STEM

Cycles of Matter

Physics STEM

Problem Sorting Review

Physics STEM

Newton’s Third Law