Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

Put Your Theory on Trial

Scaffolded debate that explores the nuances of a belief that the teacher has introduced.

Sensation and Perception Lab

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

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.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Exam Preparation

Categorizing for Review

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Two Stage Quiz

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Action-Learning Sets

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

Family Feud

Museum Tour

Engineering Physics IF-AT

Dark Lords IF-AT

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Home Wiring

Problem Sorting Review