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.
Share, explain and revise designs
Objective: To evaluate the house designs created for "The Three Little Pigs."
Activity: 1. Students will share their completed designs with other students in the class. 2. In small groups, students will explain to the other students why the designs were created as they were. 3. Individually, students will evaluate their own designs as to ways these designs could have been improved. 4. Collectively, students will discuss ways their designs could have been improved.
Assessment: All students share their pig house designs with other students and make some decisions as to ways these designs could have been improved.