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.
Make a "Fruit Salad Recipe Book."
Objective: To make a book from the children's recipes.
Activity: Each child writes their own recipe as they vision their "perfect fruit salad." Emphasize the use of color words in the recipe. They are free to add other fruits to their recipes. Put each child's page into a book and then let each child create their own cover.
Assessment: Did their recipes make sense? Did they create a cover for their book?