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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13 Activities

Languages and Literature

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Social sciences Psychology

More Than One Way to Cook an Egg: Exploring Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Teams explore Gardner's Theory, present one component, summarize presentation content, and conduct a self-assessment.

Two people in a conversation
Social sciences Psychology

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.

STEM Biochemistry

Blended Learning

Environmental science

Instructional Survey

STEM Biochemistry

Problem-based Learning: Research Project

Languages and Literature General

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Environmental science

Sustainability Development Plan (Part 1 and Part 2)

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Languages and Literature

Rédaction d’un Paragraphe de Texte Expressif

Languages and Literature

Rhetorical Strategies

Languages and Literature

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Languages and Literature

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Languages and Literature

Short Stories and Social Realism: Building an Essay Toolkit