Active Learning Activities

Silent Discussion

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

Reimagining the Reading Quiz: Peer Instruction in English

Students do a reading quiz in class and revise their answers after developing and sharing a rationale for their choice.

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

To Pass or Not to Pass: Acting out Membrane Transport

Aim of the activity is to increase students’ understanding of molecules’ movement through the cell membrane.

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Projet Specific: Webzine

Building Effective Teams

Three-Tiered Writing

Homophones Talent Show

Family HiStories of Migration

Students interview two members of their family to collect information about their family history and present it in class.

Reflective Reading on Islam

Students use homework questions to prompt a deeper engagement with the reading material to generate better class discussion.

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”

Organic Chemistry Flipped Classroom

Stereochemistry Activity

Concept Map: Furniture Design Time Ripple

Interior Design – Library Design

Limestone Rescue

Elemental Superhero