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.

Value Exercise

Objective: Students create value of something they thought didn’t have value.
Activity: Teacher brings in a can of trash and dumps it on the ground. (This way teacher can select what is put in there.) Teacher asks students what they see. Students sort the trash and discuss how it can be used. They create something of value from it with glue, markers, tape (a toy, a doll, a game, etc.) They name this item and present it to the class.
Assessment: The item is recognizable to the other children in class to be what the student says it is – a doll, a pet, or a toy.