Establish a classroom atmosphere that celebrates the sharing of learning. Have opportunity for students to practice new learnings. Make student learning available to the larger community, i.e. books students write are shared with other classes, students report in school paper, student work is displayed at school, etc.

Students re-own the material by taking something of their choosing and make a key for it.

Objective: To have the students re-own the material by taking some objects of interest to them and organizing/classifying them by similarity of structure and then devising a key so that others may identify them.

Activity: The students are asked to take something of their own choosing (cars, tapes, silver patterns, sports balls, cereals) and make a key for their identification. Usually this is given as a homework assignment. They usually draw or cut out pictures of the items with which they are working. Then they construct a key so that someone not knowing the items can correctly identify the items. In class the next day, students exchange keys and test them for accuracy.

Assessment: Quality of students choice of items, numbers of objects used and accuracy of the key in terms of form and purpose.