Active Learning Activities

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.

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out Membrane Transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Pratique d’écriture

Forget the Math! Draw Pictures to Learn the Wave Theory of Light

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Dark Lords IF-AT

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Limestone Rescue

Explosives Detective

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law