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.

Collage: working together

Objective: The student will show the essentials of group work in a collage.

Activity: Class Collage: Working Together. Students work in small groups to complete a class collage. Each group is assigned one section of a large mural on which to show the essentials of group work. They may do so by cutting pictures from magazines, writing slogans, drawing pictures, writing riddles--in any way they may choose to complete their section of the mural. After allowing time for groups to work, ask each to present its interpretation to the class.

Assessment: Student creations showing the characteristics of group mechanisms form the evaluation component for this activity.