Active Learning Activities

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.

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Love at First Insight: Crafting Dating Profiles for Therapeutic Techniques

Students create a dating profile that highlights the key feature of the major Abnormality Models in Psychology.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Dictation: Read and Run

Pratique d’écriture

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

National Building Code Jeopardy

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Problem Sorting

Newton’s Third Law