Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

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

Snowball Starter: Goals of Science Education

In this activity, the snowball strategy links students' prior beliefs to a deeper inquiry of science education goals.

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.

Low Stakes Debate

Categorizing for Review

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Pratique d’écriture

Rhetorical Strategies

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Engineering Ethics

Limestone Rescue

Explosives Detective