Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

For instructors planning student group work projects over many weeks or months.

Running on Water: Activating Prior Knowledge of Static Equilibrium

Students watch, discuss, then analyze the veracity of a video in which hydrophobic shoes allow people to run on water.

Sensation and Perception Lab

The lab explores the senses of taste, smell, touch, proprioception and vision.

Real-World Physics: Mini Video Projects

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Solving World Issues One Smartphone at a Time

Action-Learning Sets

Forget the Math! Draw Pictures to Learn the Wave Theory of Light

Museum Tour

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Forces Scavenger Hunt

Home Wiring

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law