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.

Selected Filters:

Humanities Social sciences

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Cell Phone and tablet with programming code

Mathematics

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

Mathematics STEM

An Abundance of Bells

STEM Biology Social sciences

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Social sciences

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Social sciences

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

History Social sciences

Family HiStories of Migration

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

History Social sciences

Reflective Reading on Islam

Students use homework questions to prompt a deeper engagement with the reading material to generate better class discussion.

Social sciences

Identity Dot Exercise

Social sciences

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Social sciences

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise