This page was adapted from Weber State’s “Learning Objective vs. Learning Activity” page in their ID Series: Learning Objectives course.
Definitions
Activities are the actions or assessments that students complete in a course while the objective indicates what the students can do or know at the conclusion of instruction.
Examples
Learning Activity: Students complete multiple-choice and short-answer quizzes over APA citation styles.
Learning Objective: Identify the correct APA citation style for a given journal, video, book, or interview resource.
Learning Activity: Students participate in small group discussions to debate over controversial topics in community health.
Learning Objective: Justify a personal position on a controversial community health issue citing outside research and anecdotal experience.
Learning Activity: Students design an earth and space science lesson plan that utilizes an educational technology tool during instruction.
Learning Objective: Integrate a contemporary educational technology into Earth Science curriculum for an elementary student population.
Learning Activity: Students create a short video presentation discussing the elasticity of supply and demand.
Learning Objective: Explain the relationship between elasticity, the cost of taxes, and pricing power.
Learning Activity: Students complete Java practice project in a virtual lab.
Learning Objective: Code fluently in an object-oriented paradigm using the programming language Java programming language.
Learning Activity: Students deliver a 30-minute to one-hour family health education session with a volunteer family of their choice.
Learning Objective: Deliver health education to a family, based on observed behaviors and future trends.
