Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

Running on Water: Activating Prior Knowledge of Static Equilibrium

Students watch, discuss, then analyze the veracity of a video in which hydrophobic shoes allow people to run on water.

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Exam Preparation

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Action-Learning Sets

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

Interior Design – Library Design

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Home Wiring