Active Learning Activities

Taskmaster: Diction Icebreakers

These gamified activities will help sensitize students to the nuances of diction and allow them to work together.

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Pratique d’écriture

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

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

Engineering Ethics

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Mass of A Car

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Momentum Photoproject

Problem Sorting

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law