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.
Construction of clay tombstone with epitaph.
Objective: Students will create an original epitaph for a whale that died as a result of being hunted.
Activity: Students will create an epitaph for a whale that died as a result of being hunted by a steam-powered catcher boat or the harpoon gun ñ two inventions that made it impossible for whales to escape the men who hunted them. They will engrave their inscription onto a small clay tombstone model. The teacher can turn a sandbox into a whale cemetery by standing these monuments upright in the sand.
