Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.

Projects: Plan, Implement, Evaluate

Objective: to help the student find a meaningful project on Indians to plan and implement, to evaluate the progress on that project

Activity: Introduce the assignment to the students and let them brainstorm ideas for projects. They could: build models of Indian shelters, do research and make a poster on a different Indian tribe, write to and get information about Indian reservations in Texas, prepare a review of the Texas Indian tribes to help the class prepare for the final examination on this unit, explore the dilemna facing Native Indian cultures in modern society by reading periodical articles on the subject. Keep up with the progress of the students on their projects through journal writings and conferences.

Assessment: the choice and originality of the project, the implementation of the project