Humanities Social sciences

Group Work Project Contracting

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

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Biology STEM

Electron Odyssey: Journey through the Mitochondria’s Electron Transport Chain

Students play the roles of protein complexes to see how electrons, protons, and energy moves through the ETC to produce ATP.

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Languages and Literature

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

These gamified activities will help sensitize students to the nuances of diction and allow them to work together.

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Interdisciplinary

Past, Present & Future: A Belize Timeline

Students collaborate to create a historical timeline for a country they will soon be travelling to.

Languages and Literature

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Languages and Literature

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Health science Biology

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

Chemistry Biology

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.

Biology STEM

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

Biology STEM

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

STEM Biology Social sciences

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Languages and Literature

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Biology STEM

Mouse Coat Colour

History Social sciences

Family HiStories of Migration

Students interview two members of their family to collect information about their family history and present it in class.

History Social sciences

Reflective Reading on Islam

Students use homework questions to prompt a deeper engagement with the reading material to generate better class discussion.

Biology STEM

Fireweed and Seals, oh my! Mini Cases in Population Ecology

Biology STEM

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

Biology STEM

AR’e You Talking to Me? Mini Case Study in Cell Signalling

Biology STEM

Now you see me, now you don’t: Fluorescent tagging membranes

Biology STEM

What numbers tell us about enzyme inhibition

Biology STEM

PCR CAG HUNTING’ton

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Biology STEM

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

Biology STEM

From “yum” to “yuk”: a case in point… mutation

Biology STEM

It’s All Hormonal: A Class Activity on Cushing’s Syndrome