Active Learning Activities

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.

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

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

“Light, Camera, Action” Starring Reactions in Photosynthesis

Dictation: Read and Run

Rhetorical Strategies

Race for the Hat!

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Systems Ball Toss

Explosives Detective

Home Wiring

Muscle Snowballs