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 select topic sentence and write their own stories.
Objective: Students will write a creative story using complete sentences.
Activity: Students select one of the sandwich sentences displayed in the room as a story starter. Students apply their knowledge of sentence structure while writing their stories.
