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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12 Activities

Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Physics

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

Languages and Literature Interdisciplinary

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

Health science

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Social sciences STEM Biology

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

STEM Biology Chemistry Engineering

Building Effective Teams

Social sciences

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Social sciences

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Languages and Literature

Homophones Talent Show

Languages and Literature

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

STEM Chemistry

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

STEM Physics

Problem Sorting Review