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4. Out of the three online activities, I felt that the PBS activity definitely met the criteria of an inquiry based learning activity. This specific activity required the students to some research on a specific person and tell the "audience" what that person felt and went through duering specific times of the year. This allowed the students to have some facts as well as forming their own opinions based on the information that was researched. Although I wasn't very clear on understanding the DNA activity, I think that in a way it did fit the criteria of an inquiry based learning activity, because these students also had to do research and come up with their own "answers" and theories on specific researches.

5. The one task that did not fall under the category of Inquiry Based learning activities was the trip to Spain. Although students needed to gather information to come up with an itinerary for a 2 week trip to Spain, it did not require them to do any sort of investigating or asking questions, and it also didn't allow for students to have a multiple amount of correct possible answers. The activity was more based on having the students persuade the audinece by giving reasons as to why their location would be better to visit as opposed to someone else's.