Active Learning Activities

Family Matters : Inclusive Genetics Pedigree

In teams, students will build a pedigree chart and determine inheritance patterns using inclusive pedigree practices.

Rough Draft Workshop: Group Peer Assessment Jigsaw Activity for Case Study or Procedural Writing

Students bring a rough draft of a written group project for peer evaluation and feedback

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Rhetorical Strategies

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

The Ideal Classroom

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Home Wiring

Muscle Snowballs

Problem Sorting Review