Active Learning Activities

Put Your Thesis on Trial

Scaffolded debate that explores the nuances of a belief that the teacher has introduced.

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.

The Matching Game

Students use a matching game to pair chemical compounds and their characteristics using a set of question cards.

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Museum Tour

In this version of a gallery walk, students create mind maps, showcase them in the class, and peer-review each other's work.

Stereochemistry Activity

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

The Ideal Classroom

Protein Separation

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

Nucleic Acids

This is an application-based activity that draws upon lesson material students have seen in previous classes.

Interacting Objects

Explosives Detective

Cycles of Matter

Students are assigned to groups and presented with a take-home reading assignment on the transformation of matter and energy.

Limestone Rescue

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution