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Parachutes Learn how to infuse kit based activities with inquiry.
The Parachutes Activity helps teachers analyze and adapt existing structured activities into more open ended investigations. For the full text of the Parachutes Activity , click here . For the Parachutes Criteria for Evaluating Activities sheet only, click here . Then, you can print them out as you would any other document on your computer. This is a good activity to do if your teachers are trying to implement an inquiry approach to teaching using variously structured curriculum materials like kits.