Active Learning Activities

Two-stage Testing for Second-year Math Students

Students are given four 2-stage tests throughout a semester; 1st stage written individually, 2nd students work in groups.

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Exam Preparation

Mouse Coat Colour

Fireweed and Seals, oh my! Mini Cases in Population Ecology

Let There Be Light! ATP and Cellular Respiration

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

AR’e You Talking to Me? Mini Case Study in Cell Signalling

Now you see me, now you don’t: Fluorescent tagging membranes

Cytoskeletal Proteins in Amoeba

What numbers tell us about enzyme inhibition

PCR CAG HUNTING’ton

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

From “yum” to “yuk”: a case in point… mutation

It’s All Hormonal: A Class Activity on Cushing’s Syndrome

Brazil Nut Tree

The Genetics of PTC Sensitivity and Tongue Rolling

Cloning of the Human Insulin Gene

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

How to Read a Research Article

Does X Associate with Y?

Geography Video Test

Biological Molecules

Phylogeny