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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14 Activities

Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

Two people in a conversation
Social sciences Psychology

Who Are You? A Multidimensional Examination of Self-Concept

Students investigate their self-concept, compare it to a classmate, assess differences between self- and social perception.

Social sciences Psychology

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.

Biology Chemistry

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out Membrane Transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

STEM Engineering

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

STEM Chemistry

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

STEM Chemistry

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

STEM Chemistry

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

STEM Chemistry

Stereochemistry Activity

General

Race for the Hat!

STEM Engineering

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Student writing on a piece of paper
STEM Engineering

Piece of Paper Question

STEM Chemistry

Limestone Rescue