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.

Social sciences Humanities

Students analyze a film or piece of media watched in the course using two concepts: climax and catharsis.

STEM Physics

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

Humanities

STEM Physics

In this activity, students learn to apply the principal of superposition to two new sound contexts.

Languages and Literature

Students pick a homophone out of a hat and are asked to first analyze and prepare a short 2 minute teaching lesson.

Environmental science

In this semester-long activity, students visit a farm several times to engage in a critical analysis of that ecosystem.

STEM Physics

STEM Physics

STEM Physics

STEM Physics

In this activity, students learn to create and interpret motion diagrams using a notebook file in interactive whiteboards.

STEM Physics