Active Learning Activities

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.

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

Love at First Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Students create a dating profile that highlights the key feature of the major Abnormality Models in Psychology.

An Abundance of Bells

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Gender and Job Inequality

Action-Learning Sets

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

Family Feud

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Home Wiring