Active Learning Activities

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

In groups, students explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in its application to workplace scenarios

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

Communicable puzzles: children’s most common infectious diseases

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

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

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

Two Stage Quiz

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Gender and Job Inequality

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Rhetorical Strategies

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Protein Separation

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Piece of paper question

Dark Lords IF-AT

Explosives Detective

Home Wiring