Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

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

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out membrane transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Reflective Reading on Islam

Students use homework questions to prompt a deeper engagement with the reading material to generate better class discussion.

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Rhetorical Strategies

Explosives Detective

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution