Active Learning Activities

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.

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Two Stage Quiz

Pratique d’écriture

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

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

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Engineering Physics IF-AT

Dark Lords IF-AT

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Explosives Detective

Home Wiring

Newton’s Third Law