Active Learning Activities

Two-stage Testing for Second-year Math Students

Students are given four 2-stage tests throughout a semester; 1st stage written individually, 2nd students work in groups.

Snowball Starter: Goals of Science Education

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

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.

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Muscle Videos

Muscle Snowballs