Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

An Abundance of Bells

Categorizing for Review

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

The Ideal Classroom

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Mass of A Car

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Momentum Photoproject

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting

Problem Sorting Review