Active Learning Activities

Peer Review for Beginners

This peer-review activity for English 101 aims to help students improve their essays, but also to develop evaluation skills.

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

These gamified activities will help sensitize students to the nuances of diction and allow them to work together.

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

These mini-video projects require students to engage with course concepts and make connections to the world in which we live.

An Abundance of Bells

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Projet Specific: Webzine

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Mass of A Car

Home Wiring

Photo Concept Maps: Parts 1, 2 & 3