Active Learning Activities

Two-stage Testing for Second-year Math Students

Students are given four 2-stage tests throughout a semester; 1st stage written individually, 2nd students work in groups.

Safety First! Rank and Sort Case for Clinical Reasoning Skills

Case-based ranking & sorting activities based on pre-class quiz on exercise safety in a client with a cardiac condition.

Blended Learning: Just in Time

The Matching Game

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

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

Stereochemistry Activity

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Systems Ball Toss

Piece of Paper Question

Dark Lords IF-AT

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Nucleic Acids

This is an application-based activity that draws upon lesson material students have seen in previous classes.

Limestone Rescue

Chemicards

Using cards in a "Chemicard' deck, students determine which ionic compounds are most likely to form.

Interacting Objects