Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

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

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

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Projet Specific: Webzine

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Reflective Reading on Islam

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

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

Rhetorical Strategies

Putting the “You” in education: Using self-reflections for learning

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Stereochemistry Activity

Protein Separation

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Limestone Rescue

Explosives Detective