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

8 Results

Biology STEM

Hemoglobin Hustle: An Adaptation of Race for the Hat

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

Biology STEM

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

Humanities

Low Stakes Debate

Humanities Interdisciplinary

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Social sciences

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Biology STEM

Disappearing Sea Otters

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

Engineering STEM

Engineering Ethics Debate

Chemistry STEM

Chemicards

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