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.

Filters

Filters

14 Activities

Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

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.

Young university students studying with computer in cafe. Group of people in campus library. College teenager using laptop at table. Group study for school assignment.
Psychology

Sensation and Perception Lab

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

Social sciences Humanities

Can I Use the Internet?

STEM Mathematics

An Abundance of Bells

STEM Engineering

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

STEM Biology

Mouse Coat Colour

Social sciences History

Family HiStories of Migration

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

Languages and Literature

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Environmental science

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

STEM Engineering

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

STEM Engineering

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

STEM Biology

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

STEM Physics

Momentum Photoproject