Active Learning Activities

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

These gamified activities will help sensitize students to the nuances of diction and allow them to work together.

Running on Water: Activating Prior Knowledge of Static Equilibrium

Students watch, discuss, then analyze the veracity of a video in which hydrophobic shoes allow people to run on water.

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.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

How to Write Reading Annotations

Live Demonstrations of Beats and Interference of Sound

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Rédaction d’un Paragraphe de Texte Expressif

Rhetorical Strategies

Mass of A Car

Bottle Rocket Tracker

Falling Object Tracker

Dart Gun Velocity

Projectile Tracker

Energy Tracker