Encourage tinkering with ideas, relationships, connections. Set up situations where students have to find information not readily available in school texts. Provide opportunity for students to design open-ended explorations of the concept. Provide multiple options so students can plan a unique "proof" of learning.

Creative Conflict Project

Objective: Students will share information and discover the connections between conflict among nations and individuals.

Activity: Once students have completed their research form groups of six making sure that each group contains one person who researched each of the six countries. Have students share the findings of their research. Then ask students to look for parallels between the reasons the nations of Europe went to war and conflict among individual.

After groups have shared their information and ideas have them plan and create a brief scene, visual presentation, cartoon, song, or short story demonstrating the sources of conflict between individuals. Allow your students as much creative freedom as possible, but remind them to try to make the connection between the reasons the nations of Europe went to war and the reasons for conflict between individuals.

Assessment: Satisfaction. Students should now feel that what they have learned about the causes of the First World War has relevance in their own lives