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.

Time capsules: individual and collective.

Objective: Students will celebrate the individual and the collective in their lives.

Activity: After having reread the speech in which the stage manager describes the time capsule Grovers Corners buried in the cornerstone of the bank, students will: 1) create individual mini-capsules they are to hide for a period of time, 2) create a large time capsule which typifies the life of a Ridgewood High School student living in the present time in the state of New Jersey. Students are to include music, literature, art, photographs, objects, etc.

Assessment: Completion of task, quality of contents.