Active Learning Activities

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.

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

This activity uses real life case study examples to give students a more in-depth look at analytics.

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Fireweed and Seals, oh my! Mini Cases in Population Ecology

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

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

A Case for Cystic Fibrosis (CF): A Québec Perspective

In this activity students take on the role of a geneticist helping an individual recently diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.

Family Feud

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Defining a Definition

In this single-class activity, students practice problem-solving related to definitions.

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Systems Ball Toss

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

National Building Code Jeopardy

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Biological Molecules

Phylogeny

Lenz’s Law

In this activity, students play a game to practice the use of the right hand rule in Lenz's Law.

Forces Scavenger Hunt

For this activity students take photos or videos exemplifying seven different situations involving force.

What is Torque?

In this activity, students complete a reflective writing on torque, as well as peer review each others work.