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.

Committee Work

Objective: To extend and apply what has been learned.

Activity: The class is subdivided into Committees of Correspondence. Based on research in the media center, each Committee will compile a list of its colonial grievances, adopt and replicate their own sign and flag, select a song from the era, and create an original diary entry and letter.

Assessment: Group plans for project completion. Individual student contributions to group effort.