Active Learning Activities

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

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out Membrane Transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Gender and Job Inequality

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Family HiStories of Migration

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

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

Action-Learning Sets

Forget the Math! Draw Pictures to Learn the Wave Theory of Light

Family Feud

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Museum Tour

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

What is Torque?

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Momentum Photoproject

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Problem Sorting