Active Learning Activities

Finding Catharsis in Film and Media

Students analyze a film or piece of media watched in the course using two concepts: climax and catharsis.

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

An Abundance of Bells

Instructional Survey

The aim of this activity is to provide students with an overview of survey design and execution.

Categorizing for Review

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Solving World Issues: One Smartphone at a Time

The purpose of this activity is to familiarize students with the potential of online tools for problem-solving.

Gender and Job Inequality

Summative Assessment: My Diagnosis Assignment

In this activity, students analyze 5 characters from a film in order to diagnose them using techniques learned in the course.

Durkheim Suicide: Functionalist and Conflict Theory

In this activity, students compare 4 psychological perceptive of suicide (anomic, fatalistic, egoistic, and altruistic).

Sustainability Development Plan (Part 1 and Part 2)

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

Action-Learning Sets

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Home Wiring

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3