Encourage tinkering with ideas, relationships, connections. Set up situations where students have to find information not readily available in school texts. Provide opportunity for students to design open-ended explorations of the concept. Provide multiple options so students can plan a unique "proof" of learning.
Tasting Party
Objective: To provide an opportunity to extend prior learning about adjectives.
Activity: Have a tasting party. Have several types of similar foods, i.e., four different kinds of apples, chocolate chip cookies, BBQ chips, pickles, etc. Divide students into small groups and let each group taste test a different food. Generate adjectives to describe each food.
Assessment: Verbal interaction with students and the number of adjectives generated.