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 two-fold picture
Objective: To further examine the differences in birds and bats.
Activity: Have the children create a two-fold picture:
Stellaluna flying like a bird, and Stellaluna flying like a Bat