Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

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

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

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Pratique d’écriture

The Sailing Iguanas: A Mini Case in Speciation

Rhetorical Strategies

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

National Building Code Jeopardy

The Ideal Classroom

Piece of Paper Question

Dark Lords IF-AT

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Cycles of Matter

Muscle Videos

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Interacting Objects

Newton’s Third Law