text: However, there are some benefits to doing a teacher-designed project rather than a student-designed one. For one thing, rules and guidelines would most likely be very clear. One year, one of my elementary school teachers decided to let us do our own summer projects based on the events of our summer, and we would have to show up next September to present it to the class in a creative way. Let's just say that things did not work out in the end. I was one of about five students to get an A on the project because either the other kids just wrote things down on a sheet of notebook paper because they didn't know what else to do, or they had forgotten all about the assignment over the break. If the teacher had decided to give us all a few options to pick from for the project, there would most likely have been more A's.