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 and implement projects.
Objective: To help students work cooperatively. To help students plan and work systematically.
Activity: Each group will write out a plan for its project, including materials needed and time of completion. Students will conference with the teacher for approval of their plan.