The University of British Columbia
UBC - A Place of Mind
The University of British Columbia Vancouver campus
Teacher Education
  • Home
  • About
    • Meet the Team
    • Special Projects
  • Resources
    • STEAM Resources
    • Add Resource
    • Suggest A Resource
    • Add Video
    • TeachBC
    • School District Resource Links
  • Ask a Question!
  • Lesson Planning & Pedagogy
    • Teacher Professional Blogging Sandbox
  • Workshops & Events
Scarfe Digital Sandbox
CSS MenuMaker
  • Home
  • About
    • Meet the Team
    • Special Projects
  • Resources
    • Remote Teaching & Learning Resources
    • STEAM Resources
    • School District Resource Links
    • TeachBC
  • Planning & Pedagogy
  • Ask a Question!
  • Workshops & Events

active learning

All Class Response – engage & assess

All Class Response – engage & assess

Posted in Active Learning, Blog Posts, Elementary & Middle Years, Learning Design & Planning, Post Secondary, Secondary | Tagged with active learning, all class response, Assessment, digital technologies, formative assessment, lesson planning, planning, SRS, student response systems

Educators and researchers have long considered the benefits of students actively engaging in the classroom and how this can lead to gains in student learning. One way to achieve such engagement is by effectively incorporating all-class response or a student response system (SRS) as a part of your classroom assessment (and teaching) approaches. Be sure […]

Staying active and healthy

Staying active and healthy

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Blog Posts, K-3, Open Educational Resources, Physical and Health, Remote teaching & learning | Tagged with active learning, COVID, mental health

Getting kids active may (also) help them process the new normal during this uncertain moment of their lives. Play is important to help children process their own emotional responses to adversity and stress. Outdoor physical activity can provide children with a sense of control and agency over their own actions and is important for physical-emotional […]

Scavenger Hunts, BINGO games & more: get your students moving!

Scavenger Hunts, BINGO games & more: get your students moving!

Posted in AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, Blog Posts, Not Subject Specific, Resource | Tagged with active learning, ADST, BINGO, breakout, gameification, games, gaming, outdoor learning, scavenger hunt

“…challenge and learning are a large part of what makes good video games motivating and entertaining. Humans actually enjoy learning, though sometimes in school you wouldn’t know that” (Gee, 2007). An increasingly large body of work supports the notion that game-playing  can promote engagement and and deepen student learning. By playing games, an activity deeply […]

PhET Interactive Simulations

PhET Interactive Simulations

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, English, Open Educational Resources, Post Secondary, Resource | Tagged with active learning, engagement, experiment, Free, french, game, interactivity, lesson plans, math, science, Simulations

PhET Interactive Simulations are research-based interactive tools that you can use to teach and learn physics, chemistry, math, biology and other sciences. As a teacher, you can select from the current simulation collections based on your subject and, using this free, open source technology, you can design your own simulation or modify the current ones […]


Back to top
Creative Commons License

Scarfe Digital Sandbox by Scarfe Digital Sandbox is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Log In

Teacher Education Program & PDCE
Faculty of Education
Vancouver Campus
155 - 2125 Main Mall
Neville Scarfe Building, UBC
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Website educ.ubc.ca
Email scarfe.sandbox@ubc.ca
Find us on
 
Back to top
The University of British Columbia
  • Emergency Procedures |
  • Terms of Use |
  • Copyright |
  • Accessibility