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=What is 'Active and Experimental' Learning? =

Active learning is the incorporation of 'physical body movements' or 'hands on' into the educational setting. Students use cognitive skills as well as corporeal movement to discover, experiment, learn and further develop their learning through a variety of hands-on activity.

Active learning can be hands-on learning. Students who put together a puzzle will learn more about how puzzles work than those who read about them in a book or listen to a teacher explain them. Students who use word building blocks to create words will learn how to read easier than students who use books, according to the National Education Association.

Active learning can be used with any subject. A creative teacher can enhance the way that students learn by incorporating active learning assignments and opportunities. Typical subjects to employ active learning include science, in which students are doing experiments to facilitate knowledge, and physical education, in which students learn activities by doing them. However, with hands-on items such as blocks, math teachers can create active learning. English teachers can use word building blocks and games, while social studies teachers can use interactive maps of the world to enhance active learning in exchange for passive learning. All subjects can be taught actively.