LEARNING outside the so-called CLASSROOM

by: Jerah Billones Espinosa

"Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process."

Learning is not always to be inside the classroom, the most traditional way of learning I've ever known. In this way, the child really can't enjoy sometimes discussions. When we had our Community Immersion, we had that most awesome activity called i-SPELL in East Valencia National High School. The students really had a chance to observe different enjoyable science experiments which brought to the next level of fun and exciting science discussions. I really saw that the students (in the depictions) did ENJOY these different experiments we had prepared. we had that Edible DNA, Milk color changing experiment, Burning bubbles, and many more. So as teachers, we should expose the students to enough situations where in the students will become curious enough to take learning into their own hands.

"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."

  --  Aristotle

At the end, we felt that they really enjoyed our little fun science experiments. And on our part, we are really grateful because indeed it was all worth it!