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

14 Results

Languages and Literature

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Physics

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

Health science

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

Interdisciplinary Health science

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

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

STEM Physics

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Languages and Literature

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

This activity introduces basic concepts of literary analysis and interpretation.

STEM Biology Health science

Call Me By My Organelle

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

STEM Health science

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Languages and Literature

Pratique d’écriture

STEM Physics

Forget the Math! Draw Pictures to Learn the Wave Theory of Light

STEM Physics

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

STEM Physics

Problem Sorting

STEM Physics

Newton’s Third Law

STEM Health science

Muscle Videos