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.
Projects: The Life of a Dollar Bill
Objective: To extend students' understanding of money and its use.
Activity: Student projects: working in small teams, give students drawing paper and markers and ask them to draw the life of a dollar bill from beginning to end. Where all could your dollar go? Who and what could it be exchanged for? Where would it live?
