Active Learning Activities

100 Years of Work

This is a jigsaw activity where students map key developments in workplace design over 100 years.

Keeping Up With the Trends

This activity is aimed at getting students to write sound, scientific rationales for observed phenomena.

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Put Your Theory on Trial

Scaffolded debate that explores the nuances of a belief that the teacher has introduced.

From Bauhaus to Britney: A Catchall Timeline

Students map key movements in Architecture and Design alongside social, political, artistic, economic, and tech milestones.

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.

Can I Use the Internet?

Categorizing for Review

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Building Effective Teams

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

Managing Major Weather Hazards in Recreation

Students in this activity, create & perform a skit to demonstrate how a group should respond to various weather events.

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

Interior Design – Library Design

The Ideal Classroom

National Building Code Jeopardy

Race for the Hat!

Chemicards

Using cards in a "Chemicard' deck, students determine which ionic compounds are most likely to form.

Elemental Superhero

Explosives Detective

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution