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.

Write their own version of story

Objective: To rewrite the story in their own way.

Activity: Using the text of BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? as a guide, the children write their own version of the story. Those that have trouble writing can tell their story into a cassette player for the teacher or an older child to write it out later. Maybe the children can work in pairs.

Assessment: Were they able to create another story?