Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

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.

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

Interrupted Case Study in Material Engineering

Let’s Role Play the French Revolution!

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

Jigsaw Geography Presentation

Organic Food vs GMOs

Protein Separation

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Engineering Ethics

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring

Muscle Snowballs