text: Students are already very unmotivated with school work so if they could design a project based on their interest then they are bound to do it. Students tend to mess around and not take their work seriously because of the fact that they are unmotivated to do it especially if it's in the summer. Giving them a choice of what they want to do will give them motivation and a sense to at least try it. It wouldn't feel as mundane as what they would usually get from teachers. Lets say for example they are given a project on the Election of 1912 and they need to do a presentation. A lot of students would give the bare minimum or rather wouldn't do it at all and forget about it. Now imagine doing that in the summer where they could be on vacation and now the possibility of them doing it is lowered. They don't find much reasons to do it besides the fact that it's for a grade.