The cycle often begins with an experiential exercise. This is authentic, often hands-on learning activity that fully engages the student. It is a concrete experience that calls for attention by most, if not all, the senses. According to McCarthy, learning activities are designed that are immersive. Learners “experience the now” they become hooked though and motivated by personal connection to the experience, and a desire to create meaning for and about that experience (ala constructivist learning).