Active Learning Activities

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Categorizing for Review

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Biological Molecules

Elemental Superhero

Explosives Detective

Home Wiring

Interacting Objects

Muscle Snowballs

Problem Sorting Review