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.

Decoding Decimal, Binary & Octal: Number System Adventures

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

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

Blended Learning

Peer Review

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

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

Two Stage Calculus Quiz

Do You Know Your Stereochemistry?

Does X Associate with Y?

Piece of Paper Question

Dark Lords IF-AT

Biological Molecules

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Cycles of Matter

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution