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.

Social sciences Humanities

Students analyze a film or piece of media watched in the course using two concepts: climax and catharsis.

Social sciences Humanities

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

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

Humanities

Interdisciplinary Humanities

STEM Health science

Environmental science

In this activity, students learn to define sustainability and apply this to a single Montreal neighbourhood.

Environmental science

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