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.

Ask the children if things are where they belong.

Objective: To help the children look at animals and things that belong together.

Activity: Make ten cards, each with a word or phrase and a picture of the following: soap, a cereal bowl, a puppy, a tree, a bird, a bathtub, a garden, a flower, a dog house, some cereal.
Then tell the children to arrange the ten cards in the following way:
put the cereal in the garden
the flower in the dog house
the soap in the cereal bowl
the puppy in the tree and
the bird in the bathtub.
Ask the children if things are where they belong. When they answer in the negative, (there will be much laughter) have them put the things where they belong.

Assessment: Did the children enjoy the task, did they get the point that sometimes things belong in certain places?