Active Learning Activities

Navigating the Grey: Ethics in Nursing

In this card sorting activity, students create categories with words related to ethics in nursing.

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.

Safety First! Rank and Sort Case for Clinical Reasoning Skills

Case-based ranking & sorting activities based on pre-class quiz on exercise safety in a client with a cardiac condition.

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

The Heart of the Matter: Exploring Exercise in Cardiac Disease

Before class, students read an article and gather 5 elements. In class, they "pool" findings and sort into categories.

Data Mining and Sorting: Scaffolding the Exploration of Scientific Articles

The purpose of this activity is to deepen students' understanding of cardiac pathophysiology

An Abundance of Bells

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Peer Review

Gender and Job Inequality

Projet Specific: Webzine

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

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

Ctrl + Alt + Del: PTSD and Neuroplasticity

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Mass of A Car

What is Torque?

Lenz’s Law

Momentum Photoproject