Active Learning Activities

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

These mini-video projects require students to engage with course concepts and make connections to the world in which we live.

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Instructional Survey

The aim of this activity is to provide students with an overview of survey design and execution.

Circuits: Card Sorting With Multiple Representations (E&M)

Students develop their ability to reason about physics concepts in terms of multiple representations, beyond just equations.

Electrostatics: Card Sorting With Mutiple Representations (E&M)

Students associate configurations of charges with their characteristics from word, diagram & graph representations.

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Sustainability Development Plan (Part 1 and Part 2)

In this activity, students learn to define sustainability and apply this to a single Montreal neighbourhood. 

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

Systems Ball Toss

Reflective Writing On Waves

What is Torque?

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Chemicards

Using cards in a "Chemicard' deck, students determine which ionic compounds are most likely to form.