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.

Each pair will be responsible for crafting a poem or a short writing that describes the way they feel about the country of their birth.

Objective: Students will evaluate and (hopefully) improve their compositions and the compositions of other students.

Activity: Each pair of students will join with another pair and, in a group of 4 students; each pair will have the opportunity to discuss their new national anthem, the inspiration behind the text and/or the music, as well as any pertinent topics. The pair of students that is the ‘audience’ must be able to constructively criticize or genuinely praise the work of the other pair in the group so that each national anthem is of highest quality.

Assessment: Students should be able to critique the work of others without disrespecting others’ beliefs or means of expression. Are the students producing high-level suggestions for improvement?