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 submit project contracts.

Objective: To plan and complete an independent project.

Activity: Students finalize ideas for project and submit a written contract to the teacher. Contracts include goals, resources to be used, materials needed, completion date, and criteria for evaluation: scope, details, originality, relevance, usefulness, etc. If the project is by a team, contract must specify activity, input, and criteria for evaluation of each team member.

Assessment: Quality of individual student contracts.