Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

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.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

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

National Building Code Jeopardy

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Reflective Writing On Waves

What is Torque?

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Momentum Photoproject

Problem Sorting