Active Learning Activities

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

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.

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Organic Food vs GMOs

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Engineering Ethics

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Kinematics Concept Mapping

What is Torque?

Cycles of Matter

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Home Wiring

Muscle Snowballs

Problem Sorting Review