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.

Discuss and analyze the environmental experience.

Objective: To deepen students' understandings of plants and animals common to a tropical rain forest and then allow them to illustrate these understandings, creating a mural.

Activity: Read to the students a book you have chosen which gives additional information on this topic (you may choose to substitute a video). Have students work in groups creating a mural which illustrates the composition and diversity of a tropical rain forest.

Assessment: Attentiveness to the book, participation in and contribution to the mural.