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 use whale information in writing, art, illustration and construction.

Objective: To use whale information in creative writings, art, illustration, and construction.

Activity:
1. Illustrate whales to accompany information in folder.
2. Students may choose one written activity: a personal poem; an acrostic poem; a letter to a whale; a letter to their state senator in favor of whale protection.
3. Participate in a class construction of a 25 foot baby blue whale on the hallway bulletin board.
4. Create whale art for display: prints, crayon resist, paper weaving of ocean with sculpted whales; kaliedoscopes.

Assessment: Completion, level of interest, expression of ideas and feelings, application of knowledge.