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.

Combine two shapes.

Objective: To plan and complete an art activity. To form shapes from lines.

Activity: Ask the children to select several colors of paper. Then ask them to cut lines of different types and widths. Have them arrange their lines on a large piece of paper and paste them on. Remind them that the arrangements of their lines will create shapes on their papers.

Assessment: Student and teacher reaction to creations.