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

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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

Crash Course: Collision Theory

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

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

Social sciences

Durkheim Suicide: Functionalist and Conflict Theory

Biology STEM

Disappearing Sea Otters

Social sciences

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Social sciences

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Biology STEM

Darwin’s Finches: Natural Selection

Biology STEM

How to Read a Research Article

Biology STEM

Cycles of Matter

Health science STEM

Muscle Snowballs