Active Learning Activities

Past, Present & Future: A Belize Timeline

Students collaborate to create a historical timeline for a country they will soon be travelling to.

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.

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

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

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

The Ideal Classroom

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Problem Sorting Review