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.

Biology STEM

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

Biology STEM

Humanities Interdisciplinary

Biology Health science STEM

In this single-class activity, students use cards to match cells with their organelles and functions.

Social sciences

Students complete a grid that illustrates different life periods that reinforce gender narratives.

Chemistry STEM

Students use a matching game to pair chemical compounds and their characteristics using a set of question cards.

Biology STEM

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

Languages and Literature

Engineering STEM

Chemistry STEM

Using cards in a "Chemicard' deck, students determine which ionic compounds are most likely to form.