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 make an illustrated list of the kinds of things heroines and heroes do

Objective: To have the children illustrate their own ideas on what heroes and heroines do.

Activity: Have the children make an illustrated list of the kinds of things heroines and heroes do.

Assessment: Not the combination of extraordinary and ordinary things. You goal is for the children to understand the most heroines and heroes are not super stars, but ordinary people doing what they do with persistence, caring and courage.