Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

A first class ice-breaker activity introducing the nature of science.

Cross-Disciplinary Synergy 101: Uniting Expertise for Success

In teams, students interact, share information on their profession, and create cases where each discipline is needed

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

Communicable Puzzles: Children’s Most Common Infectious Diseases

Using the Jigsaw strategy, students become an “expert” for one communicable disease through self-directed research.

Dictation: Read and Run

Cercles de Lecture (Reading Circles)

Rhetorical Strategies

Ctrl + Alt + Del: PTSD and Neuroplasticity

Poetic Literary Jeopardy

National Building Code Jeopardy

Race for the Hat!

Engineering Ethics

Piece of Paper Question

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring

Muscle Snowballs