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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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

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.

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

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

Languages

Dictation: Read and Run

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

STEM Chemistry

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

Languages

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Languages

Rhetorical Strategies

Social sciences

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Social sciences

Family Feud

Social sciences

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Social sciences

Museum Tour

Applied Arts

The Ideal Classroom

Applied Arts

National Building Code Jeopardy

General

Race for the Hat!

STEM Biology

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Environmental science

Systems Ball Toss

STEM Physics

Kinematics Concept Mapping

STEM Physics

Forces Scavenger Hunt