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.

Health science

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

Languages and Literature

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

Physics STEM

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

Physics STEM

STEM Biology Social sciences

Humanities Interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinary Languages and Literature

In this icebreaker activity, students answer questions about themselves, which is included in a anonymous class profile.

Social sciences

Biology STEM

Taking the role of a biologist, students statistically determine how different drug treatments can affect amoeba cell shape.

Biology STEM

In this activity students take on the role of a geneticist helping an individual recently diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.