Active Learning Activities

Learning in Everyday Life

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

Running on Water: Activating Prior Knowledge of Static Equilibrium

Students watch, discuss, then analyze the veracity of a video in which hydrophobic shoes allow people to run on water.

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.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

In groups, students explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in its application to workplace scenarios

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

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

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

National Building Code Jeopardy

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

Mass of A Car

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting Review