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

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

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.

Languages and Literature Interdisciplinary

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

Interdisciplinary Humanities

General STEM Physics

Students learn to build a conceptual model describing a Mechanics-based situation and practice mathematical problem-solving.

Social sciences Applied arts Health science

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

Social sciences

Social sciences

In this single-class activity, students practice problem-solving related to definitions.