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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Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

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Applied arts

From Bauhaus to Britney: A Catchall Timeline

Students map key movements in Architecture and Design alongside social, political, artistic, economic, and tech milestones.

Languages and Literature

Silent Discussion

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

Languages and Literature

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.

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.

STEM Mathematics

An Abundance of Bells

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Languages and Literature

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Social sciences Applied arts STEM Health science

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Languages and Literature

Pratique d’écriture

STEM Mathematics

Sketching the graph of a curve

Applied arts

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple