Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

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.

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Projet Specific: Webzine

Dictation: Read and Run

Pratique d’écriture

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

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

Action-Learning Sets

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

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

Family Feud

Museum Tour

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Race for the Hat!

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law