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.

Social sciences Humanities

Students analyze a film or piece of media watched in the course using two concepts: climax and catharsis.

Languages and Literature

These gamified activities will help sensitize students to the nuances of diction and allow them to work together.

Humanities

Languages and Literature

Environmental science

In this semester-long activity, students visit a farm several times to engage in a critical analysis of that ecosystem.

General

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

Languages and Literature

Students learn literary and poetic elements that will be part of their fundamental 'toolbox' for the rest of the course.

Applied arts

General

Environmental science