Active Learning Activities

Nature of Science Ice-Breaker

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

Data Mining and Sorting: Scaffolding the Exploration of Scientific Articles

The purpose of this activity is to deepen students' understanding of cardiac pathophysiology.

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.

Controversy in the Science Classroom: Nature of Science Quiz

Call Me By My Organelle

In this single-class activity, students use cards to match cells with their organelles and functions.

Harvard Implicit Bias Test

The Matching Game

Students use a matching game to pair chemical compounds and their characteristics using a set of question cards.

Protein Separation

Homeostasis: Mapping the Endocrine System

Engineering Ethics Debate

Reflective Writing On Waves

Force Identification

Working in groups, students learn to create free body diagrams from more complex images.

Nucleic Acids

This is an application-based activity that draws upon lesson material students have seen in previous classes.

Explosives Detective

Muscle Videos

Home Wiring