Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 201: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students write questions from each discipline in order to provide a successful patient intervention

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

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Instructional Survey

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Durkheim Suicide: Functionalist and Conflict Theory

Rédaction d’un Paragraphe de Texte Expressif

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Disappearing Sea Otters

Rhetorical Strategies

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Darwin’s Finches: Natural Selection

How to Read a Research Article

Short Stories and Social Realism: Building an Essay Toolkit

National Building Code Jeopardy

Cycles of Matter