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 bring in pictures of all kinds of living things.

Objective: The students will begin to make the bridge between the classification of ordinary objects and the task of classifying millions of living things.

Activity: For homework, the students are asked to find pictures of living things. Any living thing is acceptable, so some even bring in photographs of their family members or pets. They bring these pictures to class the next day and the teacher goes around looking at what they've brought, making comments, etc. Before the next class period, these contributions will be hung around the classroom as a visual reminder of the variety of living things. (And this is only a small sampling.) After the presentation of Aristotle and Linnaeus' Schemes, the teacher comes back to this Quadrant 2, Right Mode and puts out on a desk representative members of the different kingdoms. For example, photographs of magnified bacteria, a sample of pond water, a few mushrooms from the supermarket, the classroom pet hamsters and a handy plant, moldy bread, a goldfish, a flower, etc. can be gathered. Then the students are again asked to group these living things based on similarities of features.

Assessment: Quality of student responses: their willingness to bring in pictures and critically identify distinguishing structures/features in living things.