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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17 Activities

Physics

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

Health science

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

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

STEM Physics

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

STEM Physics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

STEM Biology

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

STEM Health science

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

STEM Biology

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

STEM Mathematics

Sketching the graph of a curve

STEM Biology

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

STEM Engineering

Engineering Ethics

STEM Physics

Kinematics Concept Mapping

STEM Physics

Reflective Writing On Waves

STEM Chemistry

Explosives Detective

STEM Health science

Muscle Videos

STEM Physics

Newton’s Third Law

STEM Physics

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3