Active Learning 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

Communicable puzzles: children’s most common infectious diseases

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

Can I Use the Internet?

Categorizing for Review

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Three-Tiered Writing

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Homophones Talent Show

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition

Stereochemistry Activity

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Limestone Rescue

Explosives Detective

Home Wiring

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting Review