Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

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

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

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

An Abundance of Bells

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Projet Specific: Webzine

Pratique d’écriture

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Sketching the graph of a curve

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

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Momentum Photoproject

Home Wiring

Problem Sorting

Newton’s Third Law