From the cover of Teach & Travel magazine, "Learning is Doing" sums up the educators most efficient and effective approach to the classroom.  In the context of the magazine, educators are encouraged to plan trips that will help their students internalize whatever subject or topic is at hand.  History, the theory goes, is best taught on the battleground or in the colosseum.  Science is best taught through experimentation. This idea of learning is doing can and should be applied to all classrooms.  Students of all ages can take in information and regurgitate it moments or even days later.  But learning actually occurs when the student can do something with that information.  Instructors can talk about topics and explain topics but until the students have the opportunity to interact with the topic learning will not occur. Educators everywhere take the time to plan effective lessons.  Those lessons always include an opportunity for students to "do".  "Doing" is not just the evidence of learning but it is actually the process of learning, too.  It is sometimes difficult to remember this as we watch our students make mistakes.  Let your students experience and experiment a little more, learning is doing.