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.
Planning a Party
Objective: Students will plan a class party incorporating each of the senses, charting ideas by sense and voting on one idea per sense.
Activity: The students will brainstorm ideas for a class party that would use all of the 5 senses. Make a chart of the ideas for each sense and vote on one idea per sense. Example: hearing - music, taste - food treat, smell - scented candles, touch - pillows, sight - decorations.