Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

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

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

Can I Use the Internet?

An Abundance of Bells

Blended Learning

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

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

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

From “Yum” to “Yuk”: A Case in Point… Mutation

Rhetorical Strategies

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

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Museum Tour

Does X Associate with Y?

The Ideal Classroom

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Piece of Paper Question

Biological Molecules

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Cycles of Matter

Muscle Videos

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution