These lively and stimulating ideas for use in and out of class reinforce active learning. The activities apply to individual or group projects.

1. Think of a situation in your life where you reached an incorrect conclusion, and explain how “your thinking went wrong.”

2. The Atlantic is a monthly magazine that has a section called “Study of Studies” featuring research findings.

Locate the magazine online and the “Study of Studies” section for April 2016. For that month, the focus is “Brag better: How to boast without seeming to.” From the descriptions, select a study you think falls into the category of “commonsense” and one that does not. Explain your answers.