Active Learning Activities

Learning in Everyday Life

In this integrative assignment, students analyze their everyday activities through the lens of various learning theories.

Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: Construct a Species

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

Sensation and Perception Lab

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

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

In groups, students explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in its application to workplace scenarios

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

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

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Categorizing for Review

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Students complete a grid that illustrates different life periods that reinforce gender narratives.

Gender and Job Inequality

Action-Learning Sets

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

Museum Tour

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Mass of A Car

Cycles of Matter

Problem Sorting Review

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3