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 students crate a “My Special Thing” book

Objective: To transfer the idea of special things into their own personal lives.

Activity: Have students crate a “My Special Thing” book of some things they are attached to now (approximately three pages with illustrations.)

Assessment: Quality of the writing, the illustrations, the originality