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

11 Results

Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

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Applied arts

From Bauhaus to Britney: A Catchall Timeline

Students map key movements in Architecture and Design alongside social, political, artistic, economic, and tech milestones.

Interdisciplinary Health science

Role Reveal 201: Exploring Interdisciplinary Collaboration

In teams, students from each discipline complete a patient interview then contrast their approaches.

Interdisciplinary

Worksheets for Scaffolding Learning

Interdisciplinary STEM Physics

How to Write Reading Annotations

Humanities

5 Senses Lab

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Languages and Literature Interdisciplinary

Who are We? Class Demographics

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

Interdisciplinary

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Applied arts

Biomimicry Pin-ups

Social sciences Humanities

Ctrl + Alt + Del: PTSD and Neuroplasticity