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.

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STEM Physics

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.

Cell Phone and tablet with programming code

Mathematics

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

Young university students studying with computer in cafe. Group of people in campus library. College teenager using laptop at table. Group study for school assignment.

Psychology

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

STEM Physics

Active Learning Activities

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Running on Water: Activating Prior Knowledge of Static Equilibrium

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

Sensation and Perception Lab

An Abundance of Bells

Sketching the graph of a curve

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

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Stereochemistry Activity

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Limestone Rescue

Explosives Detective

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law