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 write puzzle books.
Objective: Students will apply what they have learned.
Activity: Students will create puzzle books to share with each other. The books will contain student illustrations of situations that use another five new vocabulary words. Fellow classmates will guess at the meaning of the new words.