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

Constructive Commentary

This activity guides students through set steps and strategies to comment on their peers' creative writing.

Health science

COPD Pathophysiology: Construct One Patient Description

Create a clinical presentation for a COPD patient, linked to pathophysiology & differentiated from other COPD conditions

Interdisciplinary Languages and Literature

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

Health science

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Physics STEM

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Biology STEM

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

STEM Biology Social sciences

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Humanities Interdisciplinary

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

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

Biology Chemistry Engineering STEM

Building Effective Teams

Chemistry STEM

The Matching Game

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

Social sciences

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Social sciences

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Languages and Literature

Pratique d’écriture

Chemistry STEM

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

Biology STEM

A Case for Cystic Fibrosis (CF): A Québec Perspective

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

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Biology STEM

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

Biology STEM

From “Yum” to “Yuk”: A Case in Point… Mutation

Languages and Literature

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

Mathematics STEM

Sketching the graph of a curve

Social sciences

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

Chemistry STEM

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Biology STEM

Does X Associate with Y?