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.
Children make their own meter compositions.
Objective: To make their own meter compositions using the taught concepts.
Activity: Put the children into groups of four. Have them create their own texts (related word series) to fit the previously given rhythms.
