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.
Picture collections of people of different ages.
Objective: To help children understand that living things grow and nonliving things do not.
Activity: Have them bring in pictures of themselves as babies, post them. Collect pictures of: a baby, a child of 6-7, a child of 12-13, a young person of 18-19, a person about 40 a person of 60.
