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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Humanities Social sciences

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Mathematics STEM

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.

Engineering STEM

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

History Social sciences

Family HiStories of Migration

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

Physics STEM

Engineering Physics IF-AT

Engineering STEM

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Physics STEM

Momentum Photoproject