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

24 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.

STEM Health science

Data Mining and Sorting: Scaffolding the Exploration of Scientific Articles

The purpose of this activity is to deepen students' understanding of cardiac pathophysiology

Health science

Mock Data Collection and Role Play for Health Disciplines In-Lab Practice

Students play the role of a client in a simulated clinical intervention to provide a more authentic context for lab practice

Interdisciplinary

Worksheets for Scaffolding Learning

Social sciences STEM Biology

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Interdisciplinary STEM Physics

How to Write Reading Annotations

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review

Languages Interdisciplinary

Who are We? Class Demographics

Interdisciplinary

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Languages

Projet Specific: Webzine

Engineering STEM Biology Chemistry

Building Effective Teams

Languages

Three-Tiered Writing

Languages

Homophones Talent Show

Languages

Activité sur les Homophones

Languages

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

STEM Biology

Cytoskeletal Proteins in Amoeba

STEM Biology

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

Languages

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Applied Arts

Biomimicry Pin-ups

STEM Biology

Organic Food vs GMOs

Languages

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

STEM Biology

Does X Associate with Y?

STEM Biology

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

STEM Biology

Nucleic Acids