These two pictures are from two different groups activities. One was an activity to build stick people and act out a scene, while the other was to use directions to form a dance to show spatial relationships. I think one major element of authentic learning is learning in more than one style or with more than one method of thinking on the table. I feel like over the course of the four groups that presented these past several weeks, we have experienced many different kinds of activities. We have made pancakes, we made stick figures, we danced, we created our own games, we colored, we painted, we crafted; we've done it all. I think each group had the strength of bringing a new type, or new style to a regular activity that helped each of us retain some of, if not most of, the information presented to us. I think the best class I ever had was one in which no two days activities were the same, even if the topic of the class was. It was my English class my junior year in high school. We read "The Great Gatsby" and each day there was a new activity to go along with the chapters we had read. Sometimes it was a work sheet, one day it was coloring, one day it was a song that went along with the reading, one day it was acting... the list goes on. Although I couldn't recite the book from memory, I could give you the gist of it, and point out the major symbols and hidden meanings in things. I think to run a classroom effectively, and to give students the best opportunity to excel, there needs to be multiple kinds of activities, and a variety of learning environments, such as groups, and individual work, and pair work. I think that is one strength of all the groups was a diversity of activities that helped keep the learning process on track.