Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

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

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Sketching the graph of a curve

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

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Home Wiring

Muscle Snowballs

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law