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.

Centers: Discovery ,Housekeeping, Sand and Water, Games, Blocks

Objective: To provide hands-on opportunities for children to experience/extend what they learned in Step 4.

Activity:
Centers: Discovery, Blocks, Housekeeping, Sand & Water, Art.
Discovery: Each child contributes to Favorite Foods Mural by cutting two favorite foods from magazines and pasting them onto mural; using paper plate, the children select nutritious foods for their plate from a series of pictures of nutritious foods and junk foods; dry some fruits to be eaten later; plant a garden at school (concepts of plant growth and needs). Sand/Water: Float plastic foods in the water; play in sand pretending to plant crops.
Art: Show several still life art prints--children become artists arranging fruits and vegetables and then painting own pictures of a still life which are framed in black poster frames and displayed in room and hall; make potato prints (concept of patterning); make necklaces using different shapes and colors of pasta.
Blocks: Build a farmers' market with all the stalls and surrounding buildings; build a grocery store.
Housekeeping: Set up as a grocery store and sort can goods and artificial produce on shelves and role play being a storekeeper.

Assessment: Quality and accuracy of work products; level of participation at each center; ability to follow directions and complete assigned work.