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.

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.

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Dictation: Read and Run

Pratique d’écriture

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

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

The Ideal Classroom

National Building Code Jeopardy

Engineering Ethics

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Piece of Paper Question

Explosives Detective

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution