Active Learning Activities

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Preparation for Future Learning: Electric Flux

Circuits: Card Sorting With Multiple Representations (E&M)

Students develop their ability to reason about physics concepts in terms of multiple representations, beyond just equations.

Electrostatics: Card Sorting With Mutiple Representations (E&M)

Students associate configurations of charges with their characteristics from word, diagram & graph representations.

Vénus d’Ille: Police Enquiry

This activity has students challenge the literal meaning of a text (ie. the supernatural explanation for a murder).

Managing Major Weather Hazards in Recreation

Students in this activity, create & perform a skit to demonstrate how a group should respond to various weather events.

Sketching the graph of a curve

Race for the Hat!

What is Torque?

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Lenz’s Law

Newton’s Third Law