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.

Group activity involving research into social inequality in their society

Objective: To allow students an opportunity to discover how social inequality has had a great impact on their own society and community and discover factors that caused this social split between races.

Activity: Students will be organized into groups of 3-4. Each students will receive a teacher created handout that supplies basic background information on certain events that occurred in the United States which demonstrate how racial segregation was used in our society. Students will read these in their groups and answer 3-5 questions at the bottom of the page based on their reading. Each group will then prepare a short presentation to the class based on their event. Students will then swap group members and will be assigned to research key events and figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Students must prepare a five-minute oral and visual presentation using charts, posters, and costumes to present their information to the class. Students must e able to relate this experience in American history to caste system of India in use today.

Assessment: Shared knowledge on causes of the Civil Rights Movement and student information shared with the class.