Inquiry-based activities

Inquiry-based activities are a good way to teach kids basic research and comprehension skills as well as giving them some choice. If you were doing longer projects in your classroom, it might be a good idea to use an inquiry-based activity as a start-off or introduction to the topics. Inquiry-based activities aren't a radical idea, exactly, but using online resources instead of textbooks or library books makes it so much more open to different topics, focuses, and age levels. I like how it incorporates technology into the already existing lessons instead of cordoning it off into a separate "computer" lesson.