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.
Visual and written directions to a destination
Objective: To enlarge student understanding of the need to follow directions.
Activity: Each student creates and shares with a partner sequenced visual and written directions to follow to another room in the school, a classmate's home, etc. Students report the steps necessary to follow the map; what worked and what didn't.
