Written by Rebecca Stark.

Open-ended exercises stretch students’ creativity and encourage the cognitive and affective behaviors of fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, risk-taking, complexity, curiosity, and imagination. Among the 57 mind-stretching activities with an ancient-history theme are The Winged Bull of Mesopotamia, Vengeance of Tut’s Ka, In Defense of Prometheus, Valkyries Wanted, and Wonders of the World. 64 pages. Grades 4 to 7.