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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Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Water rat - Photo by Matt Seymour, Unsplash.
STEM Biology

Evolution of Sexual Reproduction: Construct a Species

Students construct a fictional animal species by selecting traits related to sexual reproduction.

Health science

Safety First! Rank and Sort Case for Clinical Reasoning Skills

Case-based ranking & sorting activities based on pre-class quiz on exercise safety in a client with a cardiac condition.

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Psychology

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

STEM Health science

Data Mining and Sorting: Scaffolding the Exploration of Scientific Articles

The purpose of this activity is to deepen students' understanding of cardiac pathophysiology

Biology Health science

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

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

STEM Biology

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

STEM Mathematics

An Abundance of Bells

Social sciences STEM Biology

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

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

Languages and Literature

Projet Specific: Webzine

STEM Biology Chemistry Engineering

Building Effective Teams

Social sciences

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Languages and Literature

Three-Tiered Writing

Social sciences

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Languages and Literature

Homophones Talent Show

STEM Chemistry

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

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STEM Biology

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

STEM Biology

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

Languages and Literature

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Languages and Literature

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