Active Learning Activities

Find Someone Who… An Icebreaker With Purpose

In this activity, students try to find someone for each list item. Items highlight key issues explored in the course.

Silent Discussion

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

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

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Low Stakes Debate

Categorizing for Review

Peer Review

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Building Effective Teams

Dictation: Read and Run

Rhetorical Strategies

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

National Building Code Jeopardy

Race for the Hat!

Engineering Ethics

Piece of Paper Question

Elemental Superhero

Explosives Detective