Active Learning Activities

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

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.

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

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

Rhetorical Strategies

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Protein Separation

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Piece of Paper Question

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring