Active Learning Activities

Take it Outside: A Field Trip in Three Acts

This activity serves as a field trip template to engage students with pre, during, and post-visit observations and analysis.

Earth History Walk

A self-guided walk exploring how – and why – Earth changed over its 4.6 billion year history.

From Bauhaus to Britney: A Catchall Timeline

Students map key movements in Architecture and Design alongside social, political, artistic, economic, and tech milestones.

Role Reveal 201: Exploring Interdisciplinary Collaboration

In teams, students from each discipline complete a patient interview then contrast their approaches.

How to Write Reading Annotations

This activity helps students improve their quality of reading annotations using platforms like Perusall.

Yeas and Nays: Using Smartphones for Gathering Data

The overall aim of this activity is to help students learn new, efficient and flexible ways to collect a variety of datasets.

Sustainability Development Plan (Part 1 and Part 2)

In this activity, students learn to define sustainability and apply this to a single Montreal neighbourhood. 

Family HiStories of Migration

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

Biomimicry Pin-ups

Geography Video Test

The aim of this project is to get students thinking about facts and concepts related to rivers in the field (in real life!).

Engineering Physics IF-AT

What is Torque?

In this activity, students complete a reflective writing on torque, as well as peer review each others work.

Momentum Photoproject