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.
Tell the children the following story:
Objective: For the children to imagine what it would be like to be another species.
Activity: Tell the children the following story:
Once upon a time there was a little boy who decided he wanted to be a horse. Being a horse he could run fast across the meadow. That was better than being a boy he thought. So he told his mother that from now on, he would be a horse. She smiled.
And so he began to be a horse. He walked on his hands and his feet, he whinnied instead of talking and he brought his things into the barn so he could sleep there with the other horses. His mother told him it was fine with her is he wanted to be a horse and that she would bring him his supper in the barn.
After a day of walking on all fours, and running in the meadow, he was tired and hungry. He was anxious for his mother to bring him his supper. She came into the barn with a large bundle of hay for him. He was not happy about eating the hay even though it smelled very sweet. He could also smell what was cooking in the house where the people ate, and he asked his mother what the people were eating tonight. She answered, “Oh, we’re having hot dogs and French fires and ice cream.”
What do you think he did?
