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.

Civil Rights Movement Timeline

Objective: to have students put events into historical order

Activity: Make a timeline of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. Place collected data and advertising illustrations with the timeline.

Assessment: Accuracy of dates and illustrations and connections to the concept