Active Learning Activities

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

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

From Bauhaus to Britney: A Catchall Timeline

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

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

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.

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

An Abundance of Bells

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

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

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Mass of A Car

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Momentum Photoproject

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting

Problem Sorting Review

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3