Active Learning Activities

Group Work Project Contracting

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

Snowball Starter: Goals of Science Education

In this activity, the snowball strategy links students' prior beliefs to a deeper inquiry of science education goals.

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

Don’t go NUTS: A Case Study on the Physiology of Stress

An Abundance of Bells

Peer Review, Assessment & Feedback

Photosynthesis: Light Dependent Reactions

From “Yum” to “Yuk”: A Case in Point… Mutation

Projects on Junot Diaz: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Museum Tour

Does X Associate with Y?

The Ideal Classroom

Engineering Poster Presentations with Peer Assessment

Biological Molecules

Kinematics Concept Mapping

Cycles of Matter

Muscle Snowballs

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution