We have all studied Archimedes' Principle in school. It has something to do with the displaced fluid and its weight, volume, buoyancy and so on. Boring stuff I know but an important topic covered in college physics and a topic that I had to cover for my class.
I decided to try a different approach and instead of expecting the students to remember all the terms mentioned above and making sense out of them I asked them to perform the same experiment Archimedes had done about 2222 years ago and see if helps them to understand the concept.
The feedback I received was phenomenal as it somehow clicked for most of them.
Understanding won 6-0 against memorising.
