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.

Thank-you card

Objective: That the children will come to understand that while some things change it is also true that some things stay the same.

Activity: Have the children pick out one person in their lives who never changes to them and make a thank-you card for that person.

Assessment: The enjoyment and meaning of the activity for the children.