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

33 Results

Psychology Social sciences

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 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

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

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.

Physics STEM

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Biology STEM

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Chemistry STEM

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Biology STEM

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Photo by Samuel Austin on Unsplash
Biology STEM

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring reactions in photosynthesis

Languages

Dictation: Read and Run

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Chemistry STEM

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

Biology STEM

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

Languages

Rhetorical Strategies

Social sciences

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Social sciences

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Social sciences

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

Social sciences

Family Feud

Social sciences

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Biology STEM

Protein Separation

Applied Arts

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple