Hands-on Activities in the Classroom: Using hands-on activities in the classroom provides students with opportunities to apply skills and strategies they have learned to actual real life situations. Taking concepts and building on them helps students with comprehension skills as well as problem solving skills. As teachers, we need to give our students every possible option to apply hands-on methods to the lessons we are teaching them. Here is an example of a hands-on activity you could use in your classroom. Having students work in groups using pea pods, rulers, and two coordinate graphs, they will learn how to apply problem solving strategies and solve for different variables in a given set.