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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Health science

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

Health science

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

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

Biology STEM

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Engineering STEM

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Biology STEM

Organic Food vs GMOs

Biology STEM

Protein Separation

Biology STEM

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Engineering STEM

Engineering Ethics

Engineering STEM

Peer Review Calibration and Constructive Feedback Workshop

Health science STEM

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