Active Learning Activities

Find Someone Who… An Icebreaker With Purpose

In this activity, students try to find someone for each list item. Items highlight key issues explored in the course.

Silent Discussion

Conduct a discussion in your class without students ever speaking a word!

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

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

Mechanics in Motion: Iterative GIF Creation

In groups, students create GIFs to demonstrate and explain how mechanic principles apply in real-life scenarios.

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

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Peer Review

Two Stage Quiz

Name that Molecule! / Nommez cette Molécule!

Projet Specific: Webzine

Building Effective Teams

Three-Tiered Writing

Dictation: Read and Run

Pratique d’écriture

If You’re Not Part of the Solution You’re Part of the Precipitate

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

Putting the “You” in education: Using self-reflections for learning

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Sketching the graph of a curve

Having Students Read and Apply Essay Feedback

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Engineering Physics IF-AT