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.

Explore how to use learned skills

Objective: The staff explores how they will use what they have learned.

Activity: 1.) Staff works with a partner to create three phone call scenarios in which they give the callers only a portion of the call. These are written on index cards. 2.) The supervisor collects all notecard sample scenarious. Staff arranges their seats in a circle so they can all see each other. The supervisor tosses a “koosh” ball into the group. The first person to catch it draws a card and responds quickly to the scenario, speaking into a large, funny play telephone. The “game’ continues until all staff have participated at least twice and all notecards are used.