Active Learning Activities

Sensation and Perception Lab

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

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.

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.

Can I Use the Internet?

Low Stakes Debate

Categorizing for Review

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

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

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Sketching the graph of a curve

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

Ctrl + Alt + Del: PTSD and Neuroplasticity

Family Feud

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Museum Tour

Race for the Hat!

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Forces Scavenger Hunt