Active Learning Activities

Past, Present & Future: A Belize Timeline

Students collaborate to create a historical timeline for a country they will soon be travelling to.

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.

From Bauhaus to Britney: A Catchall Timeline

Students map key movements in Architecture and Design alongside social, political, artistic, economic, and tech milestones.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

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

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

Interior Design – Library Design

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Momentum Photoproject

Home Wiring

Problem Sorting

Newton’s Third Law

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3