Active Learning Activities

Two-stage Testing for Second-year Math Students

Students are given four 2-stage tests throughout a semester; 1st stage written individually, 2nd students work in groups.

Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: Construct a Species

Students construct a fictional animal species by selecting traits related to sexual reproduction.

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

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

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.

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

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

Two Stage Quiz

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Engineering Physics IF-AT

Protein Separation

The Ideal Classroom

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Dark Lords IF-AT

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Cycles of Matter

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Home Wiring