Featured learning activities
Placemat method
This method facilitates group discussions, letting students individually answer questions before collaborating on shared responses.
World café
A structured group discussion in a café setting, promoting listening and discussion on specific themes.
Lightning Talk
Lightning talks, or 'Pecha Kucha,' are short, minimalistic presentations that require delivering effective speeches and providing only core information
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Concept Map
Let students make a concept map to use as a graphic organizer about a certain topic.
Concrete Images
Students bring a concrete image to class and discuss common themes, patterns and missing information regarding a topic or phenomenom.
Create Infographic
Students collaborate to create an infographic or PowerPoint about literature, a case study, or a project.
Demonstrations
In effective demonstrations students should be asked to predict outcomes, then experience the demonstration, and then reflect.
Evaluating Sources with Compass
Let students critically think about the sources they use, after first finishing a designated online Compass-modules.
Exam Questions
Let students come up with their own exam questions and answers. Other students practise with these questions.
Fishbowl Method
Students discuss a topic with a participating group within the fishbowl and an observing and reflecting group outside the fishbowl
Lightning Talk
Lightning talks, or 'Pecha Kucha,' are short, minimalistic presentations that require delivering effective speeches and providing only core information
Multiple choice
Students answer multiple choice questions during a quiz.
Quescussion
A standard class discussion, but with an interesting twist. Only questions are allowed as an answer!
Reaction Sheets
Let a document rotate among students and let them contribute to the questions proposed.
Scientific Dilemma’s
Students make an inventory of different viewpoints/hypotheses about a scientific dilemma based on articles.