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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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.

General Languages and Literature

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

This activity has students challenge the literal meaning of a text (ie. the supernatural explanation for a murder).

Chemistry STEM

The Matching Game

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

Chemistry STEM

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Chemistry STEM

Stereochemistry Activity

Biology STEM

Protein Separation

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.

Chemistry STEM

Limestone Rescue

Chemistry STEM

Explosives Detective