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.

Environmental science

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

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Social sciences

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

Environmental science

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

Social sciences

Environmental science

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

Social sciences

Social sciences

Social sciences

In this single-class activity, students practice problem-solving related to definitions.

Social sciences

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!).