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.
Plan: First Aid for Homework
Objective: The student will create strategies to ease the problems which may occur to keep one from doing homework.
Activity: First Aid for Homework. Working in small groups, students create plans to cure homework problems. In so doing, they address the problems shown in the sculptures, creating a pamphlet which suggests ways to alleviate them. Possible solutions might include using comfortable furniture, bright lighting, asking for help from parents, or just having the family dog nearby.
Assessment: The pamphlet created provides a measure of student learning.