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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STEM Physics

Running on Water: Activating Prior Knowledge of Static Equilibrium

Students watch, discuss, then analyze the veracity of a video in which hydrophobic shoes allow people to run on water.

Cell Phone and tablet with programming code

Mathematics

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

Social sciences Psychology

Love at First Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Students create a dating profile that highlights the key feature of the major Abnormality Models in Psychology.

Biology Health science

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

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

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Running on Water: Activating Prior Knowledge of Static Equilibrium

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

Love at First Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

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

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

Sketching the graph of a curve

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Newton’s Third Law