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.

Mathematics

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

Interdisciplinary Health science

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

STEM Mathematics

Interdisciplinary STEM Physics

This activity helps students improve their quality of reading annotations using platforms like Perusall.

Languages and Literature Interdisciplinary

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

History

Social sciences History

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

Social sciences History

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

Environmental science

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

Environmental science