Active Learning Activities

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

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

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

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Pratique d’écriture

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

Rhetorical Strategies

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

National Building Code Jeopardy

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

The Ideal Classroom

Piece of Paper Question

Dark Lords IF-AT

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Cycles of Matter

Muscle Snowballs

Muscle Videos

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution