text: The main thing teachers are trying to do is help guide students on their path of success, but only if the student complies. The point of a project is to let students explore a topic that the teacher can teach themselves, but a hands on experience can better the students' learning. If students in the class decide to create their own different projects, they won't all be retaining all of the information that is required to get out of doing the project and some projects might not be relevant to the topic. For example, if a chemistry teacher decides to create a project for students to learn about Intermolecular Forces and wants the students to learn about Dipole-Dipole, Hydrogen Bonding, London Dispersion Forces, and gives the students no rubric so they chose how the project will be done, some students will find all three forces and learn a lot, while others may only find one or two, and worst comes to worst, students didn't even follow the directions and created their own project separate from the information given. This is important because the teacher will end up having to teach the students what they missed in the project which will take out of class time to learn other things.