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.

Applied arts

Students use visual thinking to diagram / illustrate a subject with the only criteria being they have expert knowledge of it.

Social sciences

In this test review activity, students create questions, exchange them with a peer, and answer each other's questions.

STEM Physics

This activity aims to bring about conceptual change by making explicit common misconceptions about the nature of science.

STEM Physics

This activity gives the students the opportunity to talk about the concepts seen in class and to discuss with their peers.

STEM Physics

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

STEM Engineering

This activity's goal is to familiarize students with the peer review process and teach them how to accept peer criticism.