Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

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.

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Dictation: Read and Run

Family HiStories of Migration

Students interview two members of their family to collect information about their family history and present it in class.

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

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

Family Feud

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Momentum Photoproject

Problem Sorting