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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Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

STEM Biology

Electron Odyssey: Journey through the Mitochondria’s Electron Transport Chain

Students play the roles of protein complexes to see how electrons, protons, and energy moves through the ETC to produce ATP.

STEM Mathematics

Two-stage Testing for Second-year Math Students

Students are given four 2-stage tests throughout a semester; 1st stage written individually, 2nd students work in groups.

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.

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Group Work Project Contracting

Electron Odyssey: Journey through the Mitochondria’s Electron Transport Chain

Two-stage Testing for Second-year Math Students

Safety First! Rank and Sort Case for Clinical Reasoning Skills

Blended Learning

Two Stage Quiz

Projet Specific: Webzine

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Three-Tiered Writing

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Engineering Physics IF-AT

What is Torque?

Lenz’s Law