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.

Discussion of elevator experiment.

Objective: To connect the elevator experience to a generalization about density and sinking/floating.

Activity: Have the students look at a list of densities. Ask them to try and find out how the densities of the liquids that behaved similarly are related. Then have them look at the density of the wooden block (the elevator cage) compared with those of the liquids used. Ask the students to draw a conclusion concerning densities. Then have students observe two substances of the same mass with different volumes and decide which is more dense. Repeat with substances of the same volume, different mass.

Assessment: Validity of conclusions and reasoning.