Active Learning Activities

Active learning activities are tailored to specific learning outcomes and content. They incorporate one or more of the evidence-based strategies. Structured to expose their theoretical underpinnings, the activities can be used by practitioners and researchers alike.

Interdisciplinary

In this activity, the snowball strategy links students' prior beliefs to a deeper inquiry of science education goals.

STEM Physics

STEM Physics

These mini-video projects require students to engage with course concepts and make connections to the world in which we live.

Humanities

STEM Physics

Students learn to build a conceptual model describing a situation involving an accelerating charged particle.

Social sciences

STEM Physics

STEM Physics

Students use the Tracker software to analyze projectile motion to determine which equations fit the plots produced.

STEM Physics

Students learn to analyze data using spreadsheet programs and gain a deeper understanding of conservation of energy.

STEM Physics