Active Learning Activities

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

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

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

Organic Food vs GMOs

Protein Separation

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

Mass of A Car

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring

Muscle Snowballs