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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Humanities Social sciences

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Health science

Navigating the Grey: Ethics in Nursing

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

Health science

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.

Health science Interdisciplinary

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

Humanities

Low Stakes Debate

Social sciences

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Health science STEM

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Social sciences

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

History Social sciences

Family HiStories of Migration

Students interview two members of their family to collect information about their family history and present it in class.

Humanities Social sciences

Ctrl + Alt + Del: PTSD and Neuroplasticity

Social sciences

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Social sciences

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

Engineering STEM

Engineering Ethics

Engineering STEM

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings