[…] Often this concept of doing something unknown such as letting students truly create, while adding or discovering curriculum connections as one goes is uncomfortable and causes us to not want to try open ended projects as we are worried they might not “work out”. It helps with this stage at the beginning of learning to understand that the first stage of learning is “disorientation”, and is a completely natural stage. Students experience it all the time, but with collective creations that are open ended, or inquiry projects or Project Based Learning, we all learn together and the teacher is more facilitator and learning along with the students, naturally including their perspectives and insights. You can see the learning cycle from Marilyn Taylor here: …