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Active learning can be spontaneous play planned, purposeful play events and life experiences. Active learning is experiential, mindful engaged in active learning activities because it challenges their thinking and their imagination in real life.In the classroom, The children are Active and learning at the same time in the classroom exploring everything around them and learning from every center they choose to play with.
Two weeks ago we talk about play Doh, how can we make it in the classroom and add the color we like. The children were excited about it. The next day of school we bring the materials to do the play Doh with the children. Ms. Carly and I provide the children with a cup of water, a cup of flour, less than half of cup of baby oil, and two spoons of salt. We explained to the children that they needed to mix all the materials and they did it at the same time Ms. Carly and I were asking questions about the texture of the mixed material. some of the children said that as they were mixing the materials it was hard and as they continue mixing it started to get soft. They looked so interested as soon as we seen that the play Doh was ready Ms.Carly offered color red, pink,yellow, blue and orange and each of them picked their own color.
After the children were done making the play Doh they clean their spots and wash their hands the children could not wait to play with the play Doh they were able to make letters.numbers,figures of dolls and even fruits and food.We had and amazing day learning how to make play Doh, stimulating their fine motor and at the same time learning letters and names. I am still learning with the children and we are active learning every day. I love seen the way they explore in the classroom and the way they ask questions to me or Ms.Carly. I always extend their questions and make them think a little more of whatever they ask. The benefits of active learning are that they learn from everything around them is the direct and immediate experiencing people, objects, ideas , and events.
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In class I had the oportunity to experience the active learning as it was a team assignment and, I want to say it was a greate experience in class working with such and amazing classmate.
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Thanks for sharing your personal experience with active learning. Can you tell everyone which active learning example you experienced in class? Do you think active learning is important?
ReplyDeleteIn class I experienced active learning when we had to do the assignments of searching for people and, also we where asked on one of our lectures in class to work with one of our classmates. We were assigned looked over a blog and by doing this we were participating in active learning.
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