Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

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

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Two Stage Quiz

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Pratique d’écriture

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Mass of A Car

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Momentum Photoproject

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law