Active Learning Activities

Hemoglobin Hustle: An Adaptation of Race for the Hat

Used the Race for the Hat activity to create a Jeopardy-style session on blood & blood disorders for a pathophysiology class.

Safety First! Rank and Sort Case for Clinical Reasoning Skills

Case-based ranking & sorting activities based on pre-class quiz on exercise safety in a client with a cardiac condition.

Snowball Starter: Goals of Science Education

In this activity, the snowball strategy links students' prior beliefs to a deeper inquiry of science education goals.

Who Are You? A Multidimensional Examination of Self-Concept

Students investigate their self-concept, compare it to a classmate, assess differences between self- and social perception.

Data Mining and Sorting: Scaffolding the Exploration of Scientific Articles

The purpose of this activity is to deepen students' understanding of cardiac pathophysiology.

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

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Call Me By My Organelle

In this single-class activity, students use cards to match cells with their organelles and functions.

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

This activity has students challenge the literal meaning of a text (ie. the supernatural explanation for a murder).

The Matching Game

Students use a matching game to pair chemical compounds and their characteristics using a set of question cards.

Reflective Reading on Islam

Students use homework questions to prompt a deeper engagement with the reading material to generate better class discussion.

Disappearing Sea Otters

Students take the role of an ecologist and try to analyze species behaviours and predict population change.

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Stereochemistry Activity

Nucleic Acids

This is an application-based activity that draws upon lesson material students have seen in previous classes.

Limestone Rescue

Muscle Snowballs