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.

Active Learning Activities

17 Results

Social sciences Psychology

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

In groups, students explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in its application to workplace scenarios

Chemistry

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

Biology Chemistry

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

STEM Physics

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Languages

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Social sciences

Gender and Job Inequality

STEM Health science

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

STEM Biology

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

Genome Research Limited
STEM Biology

The genetics of PTC sensitivity and tongue rolling

STEM Biology

Cloning of the Human Insulin Gene

Social sciences

Identity Dot Exercise

Social sciences

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Social sciences

Presentation skills: Conveying emotion

STEM Biology

Biological Molecules

STEM Biology

Phylogeny

STEM Physics

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

STEM Physics

Problem Sorting