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.

Organize!

Objective: The student will create organizational blueprints for a given problem.

Activity: Organize! The students, using the steps in the planning process, create directions for organizing a locker. Their posters contain:
Title
How to Organize a Locker
Materials Needed:
Steps to Follow:
Caution!
Once posters are done, students trade and use the plans to organize their lockers. The effectiveness of the plans are then discussed.

Assessment: The organizational plans shown on the posters provide a measure of student mastery.