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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11 Activities

Languages and Literature

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Interdisciplinary Health science

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

Biology Chemistry

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.

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Languages and Literature

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Languages and Literature

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Languages and Literature

Putting the “You” in education: Using self-reflections for learning

Languages and Literature

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

STEM Chemistry

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

STEM Chemistry

Limestone Rescue

STEM Chemistry

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution