Active Learning Activities

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

In groups, students explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in its application to workplace scenarios

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.

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Stereochemistry Activity

Organic Food vs GMOs

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Engineering Ethics

Limestone Rescue

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting Review