Active Learning Activities

Two-stage Testing for Second-year Math Students

Students are given four 2-stage tests throughout a semester; 1st stage written individually, 2nd students work in groups.

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.

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

From “yum” to “yuk”: a case in point… mutation

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Engineering Physics IF-AT

Does X Associate with Y?

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Dark Lords IF-AT

Biological Molecules

Elemental Superhero

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring

Muscle Snowballs