I have found that most of the activities that I have found for GSP are mostly instructional driven. This does allow students to see a demonstration of problem solving, but I would like them to practice and use their own problem solving skills. The GSP activities can be easily modified by leaving out some of the instructional steps and allowing the students to explore freely. It will require the teacher to be more of a moderator than an instructor. The teacher will have to observe the students closely to orchestrate the communication needed for the students to share their conjectures and their method of reasoning.
As for the activities instructions, I like to leave them as is and allow the teacher to decide what to leave out. This is to allow the teacher to modify them according to their own comfort level or time they may have in the activity.
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Nice reflection on the use of GSP and how you prefer a more Type II type environment with a bit less instruction and a bit more exploration.
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