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.
Bulletin board fiction/non-fiction clusters and flow charts.
Objective: To further understanding of fact/fiction and cause-effect through an art medium.
Activity: Children create fiction and non-fiction clusters on a bulletin board. They put real characteristics of animals within the clusters, animal shapes and fiction characteristics outside of the clusters. They are also instructed to make cause-effect flow charts pertinent to the story.
