Active Learning Activities

Library Scavenger Hunt: Let the Race Begin

This activity is designed to familiarise students with library search engines, library spaces and APA/MLA reference guides.

Past, Present & Future: A Belize Timeline

Students collaborate to create a historical timeline for a country they will soon be travelling to.

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.

Find Someone Who… An Icebreaker With Purpose

In this activity, students try to find someone for each list item. Items highlight key issues explored in the course.

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

Dictation: Read and Run

Pratique d’écriture

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law