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.

Present Options

Objective: Students increase their ability to choose from options based on curiosity and interest. Students increase their ability to write a personalized plan for learning. To apply the concepts they have learned.

Activity: Present the class four options. Ask them to choose one. Have them write a short essay telling why they have chosen a particular one. The Four Options: 1. Compare statistics of accidents with the ages of people who have the most accidents. Is there a relationship? What do you conclude from this? Do you think accident statistics affect insurance rates? Is age related? Is sex related? 2. Do a survey of possible relationships between number of hours students sleep and grades, number of hours students work outside school and grades, number of hours students watch TV and grades. Note: Teacher must have this data available ñ a simple questionnaire without student names could be given to the class. 3. Scientific experiment: Obtain a lab stand and spring apparatus from your school's physical science lab. You will also need a meter stick and a set of weights of various sizes. Hang the spring with no weight attached from the lab stand, then measure the length of the unstretched spring. Attach various weights to the spring, and take a measurement of the length of the spring for each different weight. Record your data in a table in two columns, weight and length of spring. Be sure to record the first trial ñ zero weight, and the unstretched length of the spring. Make a graph of the results in your table. Explain how this experiment is related to the concept of a function: (domain, range, ordered pairs, etc.) Consult a physics teacher for alternative experiments. 4. Do a study of the following: the cost of your home, the mortgage interest rate, the number of years until it is paid. Compute the total amount your parents will have paid for your house if they live there for the length of the mortgage. Find out how the interest rate is computed. What is the rule of correspondence? Research this, use other texts, interview your parents and/or your banker.

Assessment: Quality of essay telling why they choose one of the above.