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.

Have the children draw a picture of three changes they have experienced in their lives

Objective: To enhance the children’s awareness of the naturalness of change in their own lives.

Activity: Have the children draw a picture of three changes they have experienced in their lives

Assessment: The connection to the reality of their lives. Be sure to take the time when they finish to have the children display and explain their pictures.