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.

Active Learning Activities

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Health science

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

Physics STEM

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

These mini-video projects require students to engage with course concepts and make connections to the world in which we live.

Biology STEM

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

Biology Health science STEM

Call Me By My Organelle

In this single-class activity, students use cards to match cells with their organelles and functions.

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Students complete a grid that illustrates different life periods that reinforce gender narratives.

Chemistry STEM

The Matching Game

Students use a matching game to pair chemical compounds and their characteristics using a set of question cards.

Languages and Literature

Pratique d’écriture

Mathematics STEM

Sketching the graph of a curve

Student writing on a piece of paper
Engineering STEM

Piece of Paper Question

Chemistry STEM

Explosives Detective

Health science STEM

Muscle Videos

Physics STEM

Newton’s Third Law