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.

Snowball Starter: Goals of Science Education

In this activity, the snowball strategy links students' prior beliefs to a deeper inquiry of science education goals.

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

An Abundance of Bells

Peerwise Assignment: Human Body

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Pratique d’écriture

Rhetorical Strategies

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Experimental Design in Neurobiology

Cycles of Matter

Muscle Snowballs

Muscle Videos

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

Interacting Objects

Newton’s Third Law