Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

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.

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

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

An Abundance of Bells

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Projet Specific: Webzine

Building Effective Teams

Dictation: Read and Run

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

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

Forget the Math! Draw Pictures to Learn the Wave Theory of Light

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Race for the Hat!

Systems Ball Toss

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Peer Review Calibration and Constructive Feedback Workshop

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Home Wiring

Problem Sorting Review