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 Biology

Students are assigned molecular roles, and the class acts out the molecular events of skeletal muscle contraction.

STEM Biology

A cooperative game to guess Biology terms using creative, unique clues. Great for learning and reviewing terminology.

Biology Environmental science Geography

A self-guided walk exploring how – and why – Earth changed over its 4.6 billion year history.

Health science

In this fast-paced relay, teams match categories of information to finish first and win the game

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.