Active Learning Activities

Find Someone Who… An Icebreaker With Purpose

In this activity, students try to find someone for each list item. Items highlight key issues explored in the course.

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.

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

Dictation: Read and Run

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Problem Sorting Review