Students can work in groups of three or four to share their ideas and discuss improvements. Peer conferencing gives excellent feedback to students. Time should also be arranged to have students share their final products with the first grade children. The evaluation is based upon the projects themselves. If there is any misinformation, it will appear in the first draft of the projects.
Students love to talk with younger children.
Their reactions are important to have shared with their classmates and you the teacher. It is very important to obtain permission from an individual student to share in open discussion about his or her project when it contains misinformation. Explain how we all learn from our mistakes. With permission, the project is read or shared. The skill of critical and constructive criticism is both difficult to learn and important in a participatory democracy.