Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

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.

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.

Categorizing for Review

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Pratique d’écriture

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Stereochemistry Activity

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Piece of Paper Question

Limestone Rescue

Explosives Detective

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution