Active Learning Activities

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

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

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

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.

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

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

Forget the Math! Draw Pictures to Learn the Wave Theory of Light

The Ideal Classroom

National Building Code Jeopardy

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Momentum Photoproject

Problem Sorting

Problem Sorting Review