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.
Students plan a meal.
Objective: To give students the experience of working together, planning, following direction, for a common goal.
Activity: Students will work together in planning a meal. Each course will require an unfamiliar recipe. A time schedule is developed along with the shopping list.