Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

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.

More Than One Way to Cook an Egg: Exploring Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Teams explore Gardner's Theory, present one component, summarize presentation content, and conduct a self-assessment.

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.

An Abundance of Bells

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Dictation: Read and Run

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

National Building Code Jeopardy

Peer Review Calibration and Constructive Feedback Workshop

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings