Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

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

An Abundance of Bells

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Building Effective Teams

Reflective Reading on Islam

Students use homework questions to prompt a deeper engagement with the reading material to generate better class discussion.

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

From “Yum” to “Yuk”: A Case in Point… Mutation

Does X Associate with Y?

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

Biological Molecules