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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STEM Health science

Safety Prevention in Each Developmental Stage

In this roll the dice game, students will identify injuries to be awarded points. The team with the most points wins.

Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

Relay runner on starting line
Health science

The Amazing Race: An Ethical Quest

In this activity, teams of students race to complete a series of challenges related to ethics in nursing.

Gray scale photo of gears
STEM Physics

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

Interdisciplinary Health science

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

STEM Physics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

STEM Physics

Circuits: Card Sorting With Multiple Representations (E&M)

Students develop their ability to reason about physics concepts in terms of multiple representations, beyond just equations.

STEM Physics

Electrostatics: Card Sorting With Mutiple Representations (E&M)

Students associate configurations of charges with their characteristics from word, diagram & graph representations.

STEM Chemistry

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

STEM Health science

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Languages and Literature General

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

This activity has students challenge the literal meaning of a text (ie. the supernatural explanation for a murder).

STEM Health science

The Amazing Ethics Race

In this activity seminar, teams of students race to complete a series of ethic challenges relating to academics and nursing.

STEM Chemistry

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

General

Managing Major Weather Hazards in Recreation

Students in this activity, create & perform a skit to demonstrate how a group should respond to various weather events.

STEM Chemistry

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

STEM Chemistry

Stereochemistry Activity

Applied arts

National Building Code Jeopardy

General

Race for the Hat!

STEM Physics

Reflective Writing On Waves

STEM Physics

What is Torque?

STEM Physics

Forces Scavenger Hunt

STEM Physics

Lenz’s Law