One of the most frequently asked questions at POGIL workshop is “Where can I find good POGIL activities for my course?” The POGIL project has published a wide variety of activity books covering High School Chemistry & Biology, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, General-Organic-Biochemistry (GOB), Anatomy & Physiology, Materials Engineering, and Calculus. (Wow, that is a long list!) These are described at pogil.org: POGIL resources. There are also POGIL Physical Chemistry Experiments available (request access to the POGIL-PCL group HERE).

Perhaps your course is not on this list – or maybe there is not an activity for your favorite topic. What can you do? You could find other like-minded faculty and teachers to join together to write activities – and Activity Development Network. That is exactly how many activities and activity collections are written – in fact most of the activity collections listed here were written by faculty and teachers from across the U.S. Currently, activities are being written and tested for computer science and for environmental chemistry (and others – let me know who I have forgotten!).

If you would like to be part of an activity development network for your subject – maybe French, or Economics, or Psychology, or ??? – let the POGIL project know. You can email sshunnic@vcu.edu or pogil@pogil.org, or you can post a comment to this blog. We will work to help you find like-minded colleagues.

But! You do not need to be part of a network to write activities. POGIL has a process in place – ACTIVITY REVIEW – that provides you with feedback as you are learning to write more effective POGIL activities for your subject. Maybe you have a full set of activities, and you would like to work with POGIL to publish those activities. If so, you will need to make sure that the activities have been classroom tested and reviewed – the ACTIVITY REVIEW link above describes the endorsement process.

What is the Activity Development Network? It’s you, and it’s us – we need authors and reviewers to develop, write, review, and test robust activities. Contact us if you would like to participate or learn more.