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.

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Categorizing for Review

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Building Effective Teams

4 Sociological Perspectives: Working with Theoretical Frameworks

The Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development

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

Action-Learning Sets

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

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Stereochemistry Activity

Museum Tour

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Limestone Rescue

Elemental Superhero

Explosives Detective

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Home Wiring

Interacting Objects