Active Learning Activities

More Than One Way to Cook an Egg: Exploring Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Teams explore Gardner's Theory, present one component, summarize presentation content, and conduct a self-assessment.

Who Are You? A Multidimensional Examination of Self-Concept

Students investigate their self-concept, compare it to a classmate, assess differences between self- and social perception.

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

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Blended Learning

How to Write Reading Annotations

Problem-based Learning: Research Project

Live Demonstrations of Beats and Interference of Sound

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Rédaction d’un Paragraphe de Texte Expressif

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Disappearing Sea Otters

Rhetorical Strategies

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

Darwin’s Finches: Natural Selection

How to Read a Research Article

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Short Stories and Social Realism: Building an Essay Toolkit

Experimental Design in Neurobiology