Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

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

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Rhetorical Strategies

Muscle Videos