Active Learning Activities

More Than One Way to Cook an Egg: Exploring Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Teams explore Gardner's Theory, present one component, summarize presentation content, and conduct a self-assessment.

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the Workplace

In groups, students explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in its application to workplace scenarios

Card Sorting Activities for Mechanics

Connotation Exercise: Interview and Presentation

Pratique d’écriture

Bringing Context to Life: Annotating Research for Reading Novels

Rhetorical Strategies

Sketching the graph of a curve

Forget the Math! Draw pictures to learn the wave theory of light

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Circus Launch Clicker Questions

Home Wiring

Interacting Objects

Problem Sorting

Problem Sorting Review

Newton’s Third Law