Just a snip from Gabriel Eirea from a recent post about Activities, <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">One more comment: kids are hungry for games, all types of games, all the time, there is no way to satisfy them. They don't want just the "finished" activities, they want the simple pacman clone and tetris clone and all the student scratch-based games that only appear in <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All</a>.</blockquote><div> Someone once said that 'playing is children's natural learning work'. The above excerpt attests to that. I can hardly wait to see what we'll learn by having collaboration in the Physics Activity, <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4193">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4193</a>, and watching those in the playground. <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">...This whole approach starts to help children stop "thinking in words" and start to think in terms of relationships, causes and effects, and most importantly in terms of whole systems. There are very few teachers in the US that understand any of this, even in HS. </blockquote> We could begin to develop demonstrations for parents and teachers. p.s. Here is a resource that may be helpful, <a href="http://www.museumofplay.org/about_us/index.html">http://www.museumofplay.org/about_us/index.html</a>. --Fred </div>