Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Pratique d’écriture

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Rhetorical Strategies

Sketching the graph of a curve

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Limestone Rescue

Explosives Detective

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Home Wiring

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law