Many of the pieces can be incorporated into a newsletter to send home at the end of the module. The intention is that all students spend time at the writing center during each day and continue to work on projects on a long-term basis. Some of the projects can then be published. The other activity centers are temporary centers introduced after the related whole-class activities have been completed. The centers can also remain up and available beyond the week for which they are designed.
Centers continually come and go on a flexible rotating basis throughout the module.
The important thing is to keep the center available as long as the students are interested in the investigation. The project is intended to integrate social studies and also to promote long-term planning and learning. Therefore, the same project should continue through the entire module. A project that seems appropriate for the Balance and Motion Module is studying circuses because balance and motion are certainly an important part of what happens in a circus. Another project that was certainly appropriate this past summer for this module was the Olympics.