Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

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.

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

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

Interior Design – Library Design

The Ideal Classroom

National Building Code Jeopardy

Race for the Hat!

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Home Wiring

Problem Sorting Review