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.
Grab bag of students/interview
Objective: Students will create and write their own campaign for a fellow classmate.
Activity: Put all names of classmates in a grab bag and have students take one. Students will choose how they would like to campaign for their candidates for the best class citizen. Students should first interview the classmate to find out why they feel they should win the award. Next. they should choose a way to express this information. They could draw a poster, write a campaign speech, conduct a reporter-type interview, record an interview, or choose one of their own ideas.
