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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Interdisciplinary Health science

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

Biology Health science

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

Chemistry

Crash Course: Collision Theory

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

STEM Biology

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

STEM Biology

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Social sciences Applied arts STEM Health science

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Languages

Three-Tiered Writing

Languages

Homophones Talent Show

Languages

Pratique d’écriture

Languages

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

STEM Biology

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

Languages

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Languages

Rhetorical Strategies

STEM Mathematics

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

STEM Mathematics

Sketching the graph of a curve

Environmental science

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

STEM Chemistry

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

STEM Chemistry

Stereochemistry Activity

STEM Chemistry

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Applied arts

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

Applied arts

The Ideal Classroom

STEM Biology

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

STEM Chemistry

Limestone Rescue

STEM Biology

Cycles of Matter