Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

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.

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

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

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.

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Gender and Job Inequality

In-Class Think Pieces: Course Pack

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Building Effective Teams

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

Durkheim Suicide: Functionalist and Conflict Theory

Rédaction d’un Paragraphe de Texte Expressif

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

Homophones Talent Show

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

The Index of Hydrogen Deficiency

Identity Dot Exercise

Rhetorical Strategies

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

Putting the “You” in education: Using self-reflections for learning

Understanding Terminology Using Jigsaw

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback