Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 201: Uniting Expertise for Success

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

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

Crash Course: Collision Theory

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

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

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

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

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

An Abundance of Bells

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Exam Preparation

How to Write Reading Annotations

5 Senses Lab

Peer Review

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Durkheim Suicide: Functionalist and Conflict Theory

Sustainability Development Plan (Part 1 and Part 2)

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Pratique d’écriture

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