Active Learning Activities

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

These mini-video projects require students to engage with course concepts and make connections to the world in which we live.

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

This activity aims to bring about conceptual change by making explicit common misconceptions about the nature of science.

Circuits: Card Sorting With Multiple Representations (E&M)

Students develop their ability to reason about physics concepts in terms of multiple representations, beyond just equations.

Electrostatics: Card Sorting With Mutiple Representations (E&M)

Students associate configurations of charges with their characteristics from word, diagram & graph representations.

Reflective Writing On Waves

Force Identification

Working in groups, students learn to create free body diagrams from more complex images.

What is Torque?

In this activity, students complete a reflective writing on torque, as well as peer review each others work.

Forces Scavenger Hunt

For this activity students take photos or videos exemplifying seven different situations involving force.

Lenz’s Law

In this activity, students play a game to practice the use of the right hand rule in Lenz's Law.