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.

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Students gain experience with a model of writing which employs Peer Assessment as the Active Learning strategy.

Building Effective Teams

The Matching Game

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

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

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

Action-Learning Sets

Family Feud

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Does X Associate with Y?

Peer Review Calibration and Constructive Feedback Workshop

This activity's goal is to familiarize students with the peer review process and teach them how to accept peer criticism.

Systems Ball Toss

Interior Design – Library Design

National Building Code Jeopardy

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Biological Molecules

Nucleic Acids

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

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.

Reflective Writing On Waves

Chemicards

Using cards in a "Chemicard' deck, students determine which ionic compounds are most likely to form.