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.

Individual Heat Experiment

Objective: The student will be able to design and perform a specific heat experiment

Activity: Design an experiment, using the same materials as the Bunsen burner flame temp. lab, which will prove the specific heat of copper.

Assessment: Analysis of experimental design and the determined specific heat of copper