Provide a metaview, lifting students into a wider view of the concept. Use another medium (not reading or writing) to connect students' personal knowing to the concept (i.e. visual arts, music, movement, metaphor, etc.) Involve learners in reflective production that blends the emotional and the cognitive.

Students do art depiction of world without energy.

Objective: To enhance understanding of the problem of energy waste. To give opportunity to express a concept in an artform.

Activity: Students are instructed to do the following: Answer these questions, then we will discuss your answers. Suppose a family has $2,000 in savings (nonrenewable). They also have $200 a week from working (renewable). How long can they spend $2,200 a week before they run out of money? $1,200 a week, $200 a week? How long can you do hard work, for example running up steep steps, before you run out of energy? What must you do then? What if you were unable to renew your energy, what if there were too little food to go around? Could you continue to run up those steps? When you use nonrenewable energy, it is gone. Now using a large piece of art paper and magic markers, draw your concept of our world if it ran out of energy.

Assessment: Art work quality in terms of concept understanding.