Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

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

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

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.

Categorizing for Review

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Pratique d’écriture

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Rhetorical Strategies

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

Sketching the graph of a curve

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Muscle Videos