Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out Membrane Transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Projet Specific: Webzine

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Three-Tiered Writing

Family HiStories of Migration

Students interview two members of their family to collect information about their family history and present it in class.

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings