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.

Identify use of evaluative criteria in daily life; interview adults.

Objective: To have students develop their own criteria.

Activity: Students work in groups to identify real choices in their lives which involve selecting appropriate criteria. Students interview parents and other adults to identify additional examples of daily decisions involving evaluative thinking processes.

Assessment: Quality of effort put into assignment.