Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out Membrane Transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

An Abundance of Bells

Gender and Job Inequality

Family HiStories of Migration

Students interview two members of their family to collect information about their family history and present it in class.

Sketching the graph of a curve

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

Explosives Detective