Active Learning Activities

Learning in Everyday Life

In this integrative assignment, students analyze their everyday activities through the lens of various learning theories.

Sensation and Perception Lab

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

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

Love at First Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Students create a dating profile that highlights the key feature of the major Abnormality Models in Psychology.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

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

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Blended Learning

Gender and Job Inequality

Identity Dot Exercise

Action-Learning Sets

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

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

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Family Feud

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Museum Tour

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Mass of A Car

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law