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.

STEM Biology

Used the Race for the Hat activity to create a Jeopardy-style session on blood & blood disorders for a pathophysiology class.

STEM Physics

These mini-video projects require students to engage with course concepts and make connections to the world in which we live.

STEM Biology

STEM Chemistry

This activity takes a look at the environmental impact of mining and the quantification of environmental contaminants.

Environmental science

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

STEM Biology

Students take the role of an ecologist and try to analyze species behaviours and predict population change.

Environmental science

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

STEM Engineering

In this semester-long activity, students design and analyze mine ventilation systems as well as problem-solving skills.

Environmental science

The aim of this project is to get students thinking about facts and concepts related to rivers in the field (in real life!).