Allows a Discovery Process and Acknowledges Uncertainty in Acquiring Knowledge. The solution allows for false starts and detours whereby knowledge is acquired. Teaching materials illuminate and support the journeys to discovery along with the endpoints. The solution acknowledges that science is continually discovering new ideas and that scientific models are not the same as "truth."
Insures Subjects are Alive and Holistic. The solution emphasizes the wholeness and wonder of the human experience where there is a connection between living and non-living systems. The solution develops understanding and mastery of whole systems thinking and synergetic behavior among the components of the system. The solution teaches whole concepts, rather than discrete separate skills and isolated information. The solution avoids presenting information out of context.	Includes Open Ended Problems. The solution uses problems with multiple possible outcomes and routes to get to those outcomes. The entire solution must not be known (to the teacher) at the beginning. The solution provides a variety of tasks with conclusions that are not pre-determined.
Explores Technology's Role in Society. Solutions emphasize that technology is one of many choices and that there are good and bad consequences associated with it. Low-tech or intermediate-tech examples are included as well as technology used in a variety of cultures. Military, aggressive, or destructive models or examples are omitted.	Promotes Social Interaction and Human Interconnections. Solutions include social interactions, interpersonal relationships, fellowship, and community as part of teaching methodology. Solutions value interconnections between humans and other parts of nature.