Active Learning Activities

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.

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Can I Use the Internet?

An Abundance of Bells

5 Senses Lab

Peer Review

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Rédaction d’un Paragraphe de Texte Expressif

Pratique d’écriture

Rhetorical Strategies

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Short Stories and Social Realism: Building an Essay Toolkit

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution