Active Learning Activities

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Can I Use the Internet?

Categorizing for Review

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Projet Specific: Webzine

Building Effective Teams

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

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

Rhetorical Strategies

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

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

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Limestone Rescue

Elemental Superhero

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring