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.

Students create 4-measure melodies.

Objective: To create individual melodies based on 3-note patterns.

Activity: Using large music staff paper and #1 pencils, students write their own 4-measure melodies based on 3-note patterns. With teacher guidance, tunes are sung and edited by children with changes that feel good to them.

Assessment: Student enthusiasm and use of their own musical intuition to create pleasurable melodies.