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.
Written plan for their projects
Objective: To enhance student ability to plan and work systematically.
Activity: Students begin their projects.
Assessment: The manner in which they "get to work."