Active Learning Activities

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

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

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

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.

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

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

Organic Food vs GMOs

Engineering Physics IF-AT

The Ideal Classroom

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Dark Lords IF-AT

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

Kinematics Concept Mapping

What is Torque?

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Cycles of Matter

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring

Muscle Snowballs

Problem Sorting Review