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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Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Students complete a grid that illustrates different life periods that reinforce gender narratives.

Health science Social sciences Applied arts STEM

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Social sciences

Action-Learning Sets

STEM Physics

Forget the Math! Draw Pictures to Learn the Wave Theory of Light

STEM Engineering

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

STEM Physics

Forces Scavenger Hunt

STEM Physics

Home Wiring

STEM Physics

Newton’s Third Law