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.

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

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

An Abundance of Bells

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Dictation: Read and Run

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

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

National Building Code Jeopardy

Race for the Hat!

Systems Ball Toss

Mass of A Car

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law