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.

Find Someone Who… An Icebreaker With Purpose

In this activity, students try to find someone for each list item. Items highlight key issues explored in the course.

Snowball Starter: Goals of Science Education

In this activity, the snowball strategy links students' prior beliefs to a deeper inquiry of science education goals.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Dictation: Read and Run

Pratique d’écriture

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

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Systems Ball Toss

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law