Active Learning Activities

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.

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Exam Preparation

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Pratique d’écriture

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

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Explosives Detective

Momentum Photoproject

Problem Sorting

Newton’s Third Law