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 will create a plant project.

Objective: Using what they have learned about plants, students will choose one of the following projects.

Activity:
1) Collect leaf examples from around the neighborhood. Mount and label where they came from.
2) Make a poster by drawing plants around the neighborhood.
3) Using a manila folder, create a pop-up scene of plants in the neighborhood. Write a story about the plants. Mount the story on the folder (see example at the end of this unit).

Assessment: Completed projects demonstrate knowledge of plants.