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

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Languages and Literature

Editing Exercise: Mock Academic Conference

Students write, present as 'experts', and edit.

100 years of work (Public Domain)
Applied arts

100 Years of Work

This is a jigsaw activity where students map key developments in workplace design over 100 years.

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Languages and Literature

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

These gamified activities will help sensitize students to the nuances of diction and allow them to work together.

Chemistry Biology

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out Membrane Transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Biology STEM

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

Biology STEM

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

General Languages and Literature

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Biology STEM

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

History

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Biology STEM

Disappearing Sea Otters

Languages and Literature

Rhetorical Strategies

Biology STEM

Darwin’s Finches: Natural Selection

Biology STEM

How to Read a Research Article

Applied arts

National Building Code Jeopardy

Biology STEM

Cycles of Matter