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

15 Results

Health science

The Heart of the Matter: Exploring Exercise in Cardiac Disease

Before class, students read an article and gather 5 elements. In class, they "pool" findings and sort into categories.

Health science Interdisciplinary

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 201: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students write questions from each discipline in order to provide a successful patient intervention

Health science Interdisciplinary

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

Chemistry Biology

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Biology STEM

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

Biology STEM

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Health science STEM

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Biology STEM

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Biology STEM

Disappearing Sea Otters

Biology STEM

Darwin’s Finches: Natural Selection

Biology STEM

How to Read a Research Article

Applied Arts

National Building Code Jeopardy

Biology STEM

Cycles of Matter

Health science STEM

Muscle Snowballs