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 create a story book of an imagined (or real) excursion.
Objective: To have the children represent their own excursion story.
Activity: Have the children create a story book of an imagined (or real) excursion. Encourage them to use similes. Also they may use pictures from magazines as well as their own drawings to illustrate their one night journeys.
