Active Learning Activities

The Heart of the Matter: Exploring Exercise in Cardiac Disease

Before class, students read an article and gather 5 elements. In class, they "pool" findings and sort into categories.

Crash Course: Collision Theory

Students use PhET simulation to learn how factors affect reaction rate (collision theory) through hands-on activities

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

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

Feeling Feverish: Homeostasis of Pyrexia

Peer Review

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

From “yum” to “yuk”: a case in point… mutation

Why Health & Safety is Essential to Recreation Leadership

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Museum Tour

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

National Building Code Jeopardy

Does X Associate with Y?

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

The Ideal Classroom

Piece of Paper Question

Dark Lords IF-AT

Biological Molecules

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Cycles of Matter

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution