Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

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

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Call Me By My Organelle

In this single-class activity, students use cards to match cells with their organelles and functions.

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

The Matching Game

Students use a matching game to pair chemical compounds and their characteristics using a set of question cards.

Sketching the graph of a curve

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Engineering Ethics Debate

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Reflective Writing On Waves

Limestone Rescue

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3