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.

Students will write a fiction story about the turkey's problem from their story maps.

Objective: To provide students an opportunity to create original story.

Activity: Using the student's story map (created in 36 sections), the student will write a fiction story about a turkey at Thanksgiving time.

Assessment: Teacher checks for sentence structure and appropriate solution to turkey problems. Teacher also checks for paragraph structure.