text: When it comes down to projects the teacher is always looking for what they learn from a project that student worked on but most students do not really learn well about the topic because the student did not want to learn about that topic it was given to them by the teacher. So, they will go on to just read something the student finds online and just copies most of the information about what that student read and make something similar. When a student is allowed to pick a topic they have to find information about that topic and will try harder to make it one of their better projects for themselves. While yes, the student can use online sources and copy information from that source but they will try harder to explain it in their own words because that is the top the student wanted to talk about and wants to make an effort to show what they are capable of doing when the student is allowed to pick an idea for their own project.