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.

Chemistry STEM

This activity is aimed at getting students to write sound, scientific rationales for observed phenomena.

Interdisciplinary

Students collaborate to create a historical timeline for a country they will soon be travelling to.

Mathematics

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

Interdisciplinary

In this activity, the snowball strategy links students' prior beliefs to a deeper inquiry of science education goals.

Chemistry Biology

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Interdisciplinary Languages and Literature

In this icebreaker activity, students answer questions about themselves, which is included in a anonymous class profile.

Applied arts Health science Social sciences

The purpose of this activity is to familiarize students with the potential of online tools for problem-solving.

Chemistry STEM

This activity encourages students to consider the nature of a chemistry problem and to identify the tools to solve it.

History Social sciences

Students interview two members of their family to collect information about their family history and present it in class.

History Social sciences

Students use homework questions to prompt a deeper engagement with the reading material to generate better class discussion.