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

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Rhetorical Strategies

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

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Explosives Detective

Home Wiring

Problem Sorting