Active Learning Activities

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

More Than One Way to Cook an Egg: Exploring Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Teams explore Gardner's Theory, present one component, summarize presentation content, and conduct a self-assessment.

Who Are You? A Multidimensional Examination of Self-Concept

Students investigate their self-concept, compare it to a classmate, assess differences between self- and social perception.

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

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

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Rédaction d’un Paragraphe de Texte Expressif

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Disappearing Sea Otters

Rhetorical Strategies

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Darwin’s Finches: Natural Selection

How to Read a Research Article

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Short Stories and Social Realism: Building an Essay Toolkit

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

Cycles of Matter