Strategies for Active Learning
By Wayne Jennings

Check to see if you can use any of these activities to make your program more "hands-on."

• Service learning at school
• Service learning in the community
• Panels, debates
• Advisor program
• Personal learning plans
• Reflection time
• Newspapers
• Write newspaper
• Class meetings
• Field trips
• Speakers
• Technology
• Word processing
• Internet
• Graphics
• Power point
• Video production
• Running a business
• Clubs, activities program
• World as classroom
• Student input for curriculum
• Governance participation
• Internships
• Mentors
• Drama, role playing
• Gardening
• Greenhouse
• Lab work
• Tour guide
• Project 120
• STARS
• Community based learning