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.

Create poem using words to paint picture.

Objective: To focus on the personal connection with a legacy and to understand that creative expression provides the means by which a place can remain one's own and become part of heritage.

Activity: Create a poem in which you paint a "multisensory picture" in someone's mind using words. Just as in all reading, it will still be your secret place because it will be a little different in each person's mind.

Assessment: Quality of word choices in recreating the experience.