Active Learning Activities

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

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

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Sketching the graph of a curve

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Protein Separation

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Peer Review Calibration and Constructive Feedback Workshop

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring

Newton’s Third Law