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.

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Single class period (< 90 mins)

Low Stakes Debate

Categorizing for Review

CLAW At-Home Experiment: Crystallization of Borax

CLAW At-Home Experiment: Organic Chemistry Introduction to Solubility

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Visual Interpretation of “The Story of an Hour”

Group Problem Solving with Show and Tell

Live Demonstrations of Beats and Interference of Sound

Model Building

STEM Biology Health Science

Case Study: Anophthalmia

STEM Biology Health Science

Case Study: Malignant hyperthermia

STEM Biology Health Science

Case Study: Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa

STEM Biology Health Science

Case Study: Discovering the Structure of DNA

STEM Biology Health Science

Call Me By My Organelle

Circuits: Card Sorting With Multiple Representations (E&M)

Electrostatics: Card Sorting With Mutiple Representations (E&M)

Social Sciences

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

CLAW At-Home Experiment: Spectrophotometry using Gatorade

CLAW At-Home Experiment: Volumetric Analysis of Household Acid with Cabbage Juice

CLAW At-Home Experiment: Paper Chromatography of Food Dyes and Ink

CLAW At-Home Experiment: Colligative Properties

CLAW At-Home Experiment: Activation Energy in Chemical Kinetics

CLAW At-Home Experiment: The Rate Law in Chemical Kinetics Using Blue Dye

Social Sciences Applied Arts STEM Health Science

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Social Sciences

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Projet Specific: Webzine

STEM Health Science

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Vénus d'Ille: Police Enquiry

The Matching Game

STEM Health Science

The Amazing Ethics Race

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Photo by Samuel Austin on Unsplash

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring reactions in photosynthesis

Social Sciences

4 Sociological Perspectives

The Right Tool for the Right Job

Social Sciences

Durkheim Suicide: Functionalist and Conflict Theory

Social Sciences

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Dictation: Read and Run

Let's Role Play the French Revolution!

Reflective Reading on Islam

Pratique d’écriture

Fireweed and Seals, oh my! Mini Cases in Population Ecology

Let There Be Light! ATP and Cellular Respiration

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

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

AR'e You Talking to Me? Mini Case Study in Cell Signalling

Now you see me, now you don't: Fluorescent tagging membranes

Don't leave it to chance! Testing Biology data right the first time

What numbers tell us about enzyme inhibition

PCR CAG HUNTING'ton