Active Learning Activities

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

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

Low Stakes Debate

Categorizing for Review

Gender Socialization throughout the Life Course

Students complete a grid that illustrates different life periods that reinforce gender narratives.

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Schools of Thought in Psychology

Pratique d’écriture

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Sketching the graph of a curve

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

Who am I: (Mis)conceptions of Self

Museum Tour

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Elemental Superhero

Explosives Detective

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Home Wiring

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law