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

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Languages and Literature

Peer Review for Beginners

This peer-review activity for English 101 aims to help students improve their essays, but also to develop evaluation skills.

Social sciences Humanities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Health science

Navigating the Grey: Ethics in Nursing

In this card sorting activity, students create categories with words related to ethics in nursing.

Languages and Literature

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Social sciences STEM Biology

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Interdisciplinary Humanities

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Languages and Literature

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

STEM Biology

Does X Associate with Y?

STEM Engineering

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

STEM Physics

Momentum Photoproject