Active Learning Activities

Snowball Starter: Goals of Science Education

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

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

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

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

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

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Piece of Paper Question

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Explosives Detective

Momentum Photoproject

Problem Sorting

Newton’s Third Law