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.

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Biology STEM

Hemoglobin Hustle: An Adaptation of Race for the Hat

Used the Race for the Hat activity to create a Jeopardy-style session on blood & blood disorders for a pathophysiology class.

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Biology STEM

Electron Odyssey: Journey through the Mitochondria’s Electron Transport Chain

Students play the roles of protein complexes to see how electrons, protons, and energy moves through the ETC to produce ATP.

Biology STEM

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

STEM Biology Social sciences

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Biology Health science STEM

Call Me By My Organelle

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

History Social sciences

Reflective Reading on Islam

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

Biology STEM

Disappearing Sea Otters

Students take the role of an ecologist and try to analyze species behaviours and predict population change.

Biology STEM

Organic Food vs GMOs

Biology STEM

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Biology STEM

Nucleic Acids

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