Rebecca Dyasi's workshop

We are having a really cool inquiry workshop today at Taylor.  A whole bunch of people are here, many of whom I don't usually see in this building.  Right now, I count 57 participants plus 5-10 "helpers" taking pictures, blogging, video-taping, etc.  Becki is amazing.  Somehow, she is able to interact with every group and individual while still monitoring the entire group.  This workshop is an inquiry into different fruits (grapefruit, orange, lemon, and lime).  Right now, all the groups are doing explorations on the fruits without cutting them open.  People are dunking friuts in shoeboxes filled with water, weighing them with triple-beam balances, sniffing and squeezing them.  They look like they are having a lot of fun.  A few groups are doing really different stuff like rolling them on the floor (Cindy and Ruth's group) and doing complicated calculations that involve calculators (Frank's table).  I like how lots of groups are doing similar stuff but everyone is free to ask their own questions and figure out how to answer them.