Active Learning Activities

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.

Who Are You? A Multidimensional Examination of Self-Concept

Students investigate their self-concept, compare it to a classmate, assess differences between self- and social perception.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Categorizing for Review

Two Stage Quiz

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Gender and Job Inequality

Projet Specific: Webzine

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Three-Tiered Writing

Identity Dot Exercise

Putting the “You” in education: Using self-reflections for learning

Action-Learning Sets

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

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

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

Holding Your Seat: A Mindfulness Exercise

Teacher for a Day: Defining a Definition