text: A final reason for teacher-designed projects is because it shows students understand the information that they learned over the year. Summer projects help students retain the information they learned but it also shows whether or not they understood what they learned. For example, taking a different language class, they typically give summer projects to help with the next school year but it also helps the teacher to see if the student still needs work on certain topics or if the student understands it well enough. The topic required by the summer project will also give the students more time in the summer to learn more information and prepare them for the next year. If summer projects, it will give the student more time to understand the topic and better themselves in the information about the topic.