Active Learning Activities

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.

Crossing Dimensions: A Math Odyssey into Cross Products

In groups, students learn about orthogonality and cross products by creating geometrical shapes.

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

In teams, students explore the binary number system and create parameters for an octal number system.

It’s All in the Delivery: 6 Rounds to Effective Presentation

Groups of students orally present a poem six times, focusing on six key aspect of effective oral presentations

An Abundance of Bells

Les Ateliers de Creation

Collection d’articles

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Visual Interpretation of “The Story of an Hour”

Who are We? Class Demographics

Projet Specific: Webzine

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

Building Effective Teams

Rédaction d’un Paragraphe de Texte Expressif

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Dictation: Read and Run

Activité sur les Homophones

Pratique d’écriture

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Rhetorical Strategies

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”