Active Learning Activities

Put Your Theory on Trial

Scaffolded debate that explores the nuances of a belief that the teacher has introduced.

Past, Present & Future: A Belize Timeline

Students collaborate to create a historical timeline for a country they will soon be travelling to.

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

Can I Use the Internet?

Two Stage Quiz

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

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

Engineering Physics IF-AT

Dark Lords IF-AT

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Home Wiring