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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Social sciences Psychology

Learning in Everyday Life

In this integrative assignment, students analyze their everyday activities through the lens of various learning theories.

Mathematics

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

Young university students studying with computer in cafe. Group of people in campus library. College teenager using laptop at table. Group study for school assignment.

Psychology

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

STEM Physics

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

Social sciences Psychology

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

Active Learning Activities

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Learning in Everyday Life

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

Sensation and Perception Lab

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

An Abundance of Bells

Categorizing for Review

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Gender and Job Inequality

Action-Learning Sets

Sketching the graph of a curve

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

Museum Tour

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Mass of A Car

Home Wiring

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3