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

18 Results

Social sciences Psychology

Love at first Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Students create a dating profile that highlights the key feature of the major Abnormality Models in Psychology

Health science

PharmaPuzzle Relay Race: Match the Meds and Win!

In this fast-paced relay, teams match categories of information to finish first and win the game

Biology Health science

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

Health science

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Health science

Communicable puzzles: children’s most common infectious diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

STEM Biology

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

STEM Biology

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Social sciences Applied Arts STEM Health science

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

STEM Chemistry

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

STEM Biology

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Photo by Samuel Austin on Unsplash
STEM Biology

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring reactions in photosynthesis

STEM Chemistry

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

STEM Physics

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

STEM Biology

Protein Separation

STEM Biology

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

STEM Physics

Forces Scavenger Hunt

STEM Chemistry

Explosives Detective

STEM Physics

Home Wiring