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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Physics

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

Chemistry

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

STEM Physics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Social sciences Humanities

Can I Use the Internet?

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Photo by Samuel Austin on Unsplash

STEM Biology

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

STEM Biology

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

Languages

Rhetorical Strategies

Languages

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Social sciences

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

STEM Mathematics

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Social sciences

Museum Tour

STEM Chemistry

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

STEM Physics

Engineering Physics IF-AT

STEM Biology

Does X Associate with Y?

STEM Physics

Dark Lords IF-AT

STEM Biology

Biological Molecules

STEM Physics

Kinematics Concept Mapping

STEM Biology

Cycles of Matter

STEM Chemistry

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution