Research has shown that incorporating short, formative activities within your regular lectures can benefit your students by increasing their classroom engagement, deepening their understanding of the material being studied, and aid in long-term retention. In this handout you will find activities suitable for the beginning, middle and end of your lectures, as well as activities specifically designed to help your students recall key information, predict what is to come, and mitigate fluency illusions.

• Lecture Activities Handout

Graphic organizers are simple tools that can be a game changer for students who struggle to organize information, or who benefit some creating a visual representation of the information being learned. There are an abundance of types of graphic organizers freely available on the internet, and in many cases you can either create your own, or have students make them in their own notes. Filling these out can also be used in coordination with lecture activities.