Activitymania

Before I started reading the article, I was thinking that this was going to be about ways to make activities apart of the curriculum. I wasn't expecting the title Activitymania to mean that there are packages of activities that teachers recieve that are able to teach science, but have nothing to do with one another. As I read more of the reading I discovered that the article was really about science as inquiry-based learning.  This picture below is from the article and I really liked the quote. I think that comparing science to the student's lives gives the students something to be interested about. It involves there lives and makes them want to learn and explore the different concepts.

 I like that the article gives ways to use the activities in the classroom and making them inquiry by giving questions that teachers should ask about the activities, so that the students understand the concepts as well as get to explore the concepts.  Another part of the article that I liked was the chart that explains the differences between activity and inquiry based learning. Before reading this article, I assumed that they were the same thing. But now I know that activity is shorter, can be pre-planned and has a definite answer. The section in the chart that discusses "Teacher Feelings" I thought was a great addition. It gives once again some idea of how i should feel as a teacher, while I'm teaching this to my kids.

Added:
- Activites aren't related
- just because the kids are having fun doing the activites doesn't mean they are learning everything that they are supposed to be.