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.

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

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

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Stereochemistry Activity

Problem Set Using Lightboard Video Recordings

Limestone Rescue