Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

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

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

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

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Categorizing for Review

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Building Effective Teams

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

From “Yum” to “Yuk”: A Case in Point… Mutation

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Stereochemistry Activity

Does X Associate with Y?

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Peer Review Calibration and Constructive Feedback Workshop

Biological Molecules

Limestone Rescue

Elemental Superhero

Home Wiring

Interacting Objects