Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Crash Course: Collision Theory

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

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

How to Write Reading Annotations

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Durkheim Suicide: Functionalist and Conflict Theory

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

How to Read a Research Article

Cycles of Matter