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.

Create a recipe for a fruit salad.

Objective: To create a recipe for fruit salad using fruit from story.

Activity: The children write a recipe for a fruit salad using the fruit from story. As the recipe is written stress the use of color words. Make a salad for the children to enjoy.

Assessment: After writing the recipe, how did the salad come out? Were there too much of one fruit and not enough of another kind?