The Structure of a Typical Activity
What students need to know before beginning an activity.
The skills they will use and improve as they engage in an activity.
Additional data needed to solve the problem.
The question or situation requiring resolution.
Space for students to solve the problem.
Two or three questions that require students to consider specific aspects of their solution.
Students are asked for alternative ways to solve the problem, and how what they've learned in solving this problem might apply to other situations or problems.
Students are given the chance to demonstrate what they've learned.
Au Help (gold) presents a strategy that resembles the way experts think when they solve problems. The use of this strategy is illustrated and prompted to differing degrees in Ag Help (silver) and Cu Help (copper).