Inquiry Based Activities

We learned about inquiry based activities and how they can be used in the classroom. I really like the idea of using these in my classroom. I could give them the worksheet with all their instructions and tell them to do this is homework for the night or I could make them 15-20 questions long and allow them a week to do it on their own time. I really like the possibilities inquiry based activities can provide. The only thing I am weary about is using them in my classroom and not everyone has a computer at home. I could always have them do it as a class activity if I bring them to the computer lab or check out laptops, whatever the school has available. I really like these activities although this was our first attempt and while everything went fine with no major hicups I might have been a little easier on the questioning than I would in my actual classroom. I found it easy to know which direction I wanted to go in terms of answering some of the curriculum standards, I knew immediately as soon as I saw the standard on natural hazards I was going to write on that. I found it hard to ask questions trying to pair them with specific curriculum standards, I guess this might have been because it was my first attempt and I have not had a lot of experience creating worksheets with questions with the intent of having my class actually answer them before. Next time, I will probably make the questions a little harder so that they require a little more thought and time to complete.