Active Learning Activities

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

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

How to Write Reading Annotations

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Rédaction d’un Paragraphe de Texte Expressif

Mouse Coat Colour

Pratique d’écriture

Fireweed and Seals, oh my! Mini Cases in Population Ecology

Let There Be Light! ATP and Cellular Respiration

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

AR’e You Talking to Me? Mini Case Study in Cell Signalling

Now you see me, now you don’t: Fluorescent tagging membranes

Cytoskeletal Proteins in Amoeba

What numbers tell us about enzyme inhibition

PCR CAG HUNTING’ton

Disappearing Sea Otters

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

From “yum” to “yuk”: a case in point… mutation