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.

Start project dictionary, reports and chart.

.Objective: To allow the children to practice what they've learned by giving them an option about how they do it.

Activity:
1) Using sand and water, demonstrate watery changes from rain to puddles, etc.
2) Make Dictionary of Watery Terms with pictures and definitions.
3) Write report on Paterson's waterways - the fun and industry in past and present related to the water. 4) Make chart on measurement of map bodies of water in standard and metric. Label.

Assessment: Concentration and involvement in projects.