Ideally, age appropriate curriculum offers many different learning activities. From these, teachers should carefully select a variety of learning activities appropriate for the boys and girls they teach. Teachers should provide choices based on children's needs rather than on teachers' preferences. Youngsters enjoy variety and like to try new things. Children most often enjoy choosing one activity or another rather than being given an assignment.
Teachers can provide choices during an activity or project.
A teacher might ask children to decide whether to express Bible learning with a newspaper or a mural. The teacher then might ask the group to decide whether to make one large newspaper for display or duplicate the newspaper for distribution. Further, the teacher might offer children the choice of writing the newspaper by hand or typing newspaper articles on a computer. In addition, each child should decide whether he or she wants to write news articles or draw accompanying pictures. Headlines and captions should also be decided by the learners.