Connect students directly to the concept in a personal way. Capture students' attention by initiating a group problem-solving activity before delivery of instruction. Begin with a situation that is familiar to students and builds on what they already know. Construct a learning experience that allows diverse and personal student responses. Facilitate the work of cooperative teams of students.

The picnic, visits to the farm, and the farmers' market set the stage to this cycle.

Objective: To connect the previous experience, the class picnic, to the concept of senses--seeing, hearing, speaking, tasting, touching, smelling.

Activity: The class picnic (Step 8). During the picnic, the children will observe and discuss what they are tasting, the texture of the foods they prepared, smell the smells outdoors, see the surroundings, hear the sounds in the environment.

Assessment: The level of interest shown by individual children, the quality of language development, the use of vocabulary developed during the unit, knowledge of senses used in the previous units.