Active Learning Activities

The Amazing Race: An Ethical Quest

In this activity, teams of students race to complete a series of challenges related to ethics in nursing.

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.

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

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

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.

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

Low Stakes Debate

Peer Review

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Action-Learning Sets

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Sketching the graph of a curve

Ctrl + Alt + Del: PTSD and Neuroplasticity

Family Feud

Interior Design – Library Design

National Building Code Jeopardy

Systems Ball Toss

Engineering Ethics

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Muscle Videos

Muscle Snowballs