Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

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.

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Forget the Math! Draw Pictures to Learn the Wave Theory of Light

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Piece of Paper Question

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Mass of A Car

Reflective Writing On Waves

What is Torque?

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law