Active Learning Activities

Editing Exercise: Mock Academic Conference

Research, writing & editing activity that builds interpretive skills and the ability to incorporate research.

Safety First! Rank and Sort Case for Clinical Reasoning Skills

Case-based ranking & sorting activities based on pre-class quiz on exercise safety in a client with a cardiac condition.

Data Mining and Sorting: Scaffolding the Exploration of Scientific Articles

The purpose of this activity is to deepen students' understanding of cardiac pathophysiology.

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

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

Call Me By My Organelle

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

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

A Case for Cystic Fibrosis (CF): A Québec Perspective

In this activity students take on the role of a geneticist helping an individual recently diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.

Rhetorical Strategies

Protein Separation

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Nucleic Acids

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

Muscle Videos

Muscle Snowballs