Active Learning Activities

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

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

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.

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

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

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Live Demonstrations of Beats and Interference of Sound

Model Building

Circuits: Card Sorting With Multiple Representations (E&M)

Electrostatics: Card Sorting With Mutiple Representations (E&M)

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Dictation: Read and Run

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Pratique d’écriture

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Rhetorical Strategies

Sketching the graph of a curve

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

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Home Wiring

Interacting Objects