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.
Written plan for chosen projects.
Objective: To enhance student ability to plan and work systematically on a project.
Activity: Each student will write a contract for her/his chosen project specifying materials needed, resources to be used, concepts to be explored, and date of completion. Note: Students continue mounting and labeling their leaf collections and rotating through the learning center activities.
