Active Learning Activities

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

These gamified activities will help sensitize students to the nuances of diction and allow them to work together.

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.

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.

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

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

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

How to Write Reading Annotations

Instructional Survey

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Sustainability Development Plan (Part 1 and Part 2)

Rédaction d’un Paragraphe de Texte Expressif

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Disappearing Sea Otters

Rhetorical Strategies

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

Darwin’s Finches: Natural Selection

How to Read a Research Article

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Short Stories and Social Realism: Building an Essay Toolkit

Cycles of Matter