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.

Interdisciplinary

Students collaborate to create a historical timeline for a country they will soon be travelling to.

Interdisciplinary Health science

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

Interdisciplinary STEM Physics

This activity helps students improve their quality of reading annotations using platforms like Perusall.

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Environmental science

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

History

Social sciences History

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

Environmental science

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

Environmental science