Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Running on Water: Activating Prior Knowledge of Static Equilibrium

Students watch, discuss, then analyze the veracity of a video in which hydrophobic shoes allow people to run on water.

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

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

Reflective Writing On Waves

What is Torque?

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Home Wiring