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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Languages and Literature

Editing Exercise: Mock Academic Conference

Research, writing & editing activity that builds interpretive skills and the ability to incorporate research.

Interdisciplinary Health science

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

STEM Biology

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Humanities

Low Stakes Debate

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

STEM Physics

Model Building

Students learn to build a conceptual model describing a situation involving an accelerating charged particle.

Social sciences

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Languages and Literature General

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

This activity has students challenge the literal meaning of a text (ie. the supernatural explanation for a murder).

STEM Chemistry

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Applied arts

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

STEM Biology

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

STEM Engineering

Engineering Ethics Debate

STEM Physics

Kinematics Concept Mapping

STEM Chemistry

Chemicards

Using cards in a "Chemicard' deck, students determine which ionic compounds are most likely to form.

STEM Physics

Active Learning Activities