text: Another reason teacher-designed summer projects are better than student-designed projects is experience. Teachers have been making projects for students their entire careers, so they know the little things that can make a project more engaging and fun for the student. For instance, a physics teacher can give an engaging lesson on forces by putting together typical around-the-house items and make a lab that any student can reproduce and learn about physics. Another example of this would be for a chemistry project. The chemistry department can create a project where students can use easily accessible chemicals they can find in their home to produce some safe and easy chemical reactions to help build their knowledge of the way chemistry works.