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.

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Call Me By My Organelle

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

The Matching Game

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

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Stereochemistry Activity

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

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.