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

13 Results

STEM Health science

Data Mining and Sorting: Scaffolding the Exploration of Scientific Articles

The purpose of this activity is to deepen students' understanding of cardiac pathophysiology.

Biology Social sciences STEM

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Humanities

Categorizing for Review

Health science STEM Biology

Call Me By My Organelle

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

Social sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

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

STEM Chemistry

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

STEM Chemistry

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

STEM Biology

Nucleic Acids

This is an application-based activity that draws upon lesson material students have seen in previous classes.

STEM Chemistry

Limestone Rescue

STEM Physics

Interacting Objects

STEM Physics

Problem Sorting Review