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.

Quest Interaction

Objective: Students come to understand the part that they have in preserving our endangered species.
Activity: Invite someone from the office of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to come in and speak on the topic of endangered species and what can be done to preserve these creatures. Another option would be to go on a field trip to Hawaii Volcano National Park. Rangers can speak on the subject of endangered species and what measures can be made to preserve the species in danger. The ranger can guide students on a path into the rain forest and look for some of the rare species. After activity, students discuss what they learned from those who work first hand with endangered species. They write and draw what they learned in their journals and answer the essential question, “Why is it important to preserve endangered species and how can we help?”