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.
Cooperative creative projects.
Objective: To review and synthesize all previous lessons.
Activity: Assign students to cooperative learning groups. Each group plans how they will complete one of the following:
1. Write a factual book which will be donated to the school library.
2. Demonstrate the life cycle of a butterfly through a skit presented to another class.
3. Create and perform a puppet show portraying the butterfly life cycle.
Assessment: Enjoyment and understanding as evidenced by the accuracy of student projects.