Project

In secondary schools, there are lots of projects to do. Chinese, Maths, Integrated Science, Integrated Humanities, English etc. Usually these projects are indivual projects or group projects.


Teachers will set the deadline of the projects and ask the students to form themselves in groups. At my school, that's always happens. After forming a group, teachers are going to give you the title/instructions of the project and the group members have to start finding some useful information related to the title on websites, books, experts or other ways. Of course, you cannot directly copy and paste the information from the Internet and paste it on a piece of paper. If you do so, you will gain very low marks because nearly all students try to do this and how can the teachers give you high marks if all the students hand in a similar or even same projects to teachers?

Although I am only a secondary one student, I have completed some projects before. Now we will discuss about how to do a good group project. According to my experience, you have to find some classmates that you are fimiliar with ( It means that you have to know about the strengths and weaknesses of each group members). Then after forming groups you must write down the content page that what do you intend to do for this project.



Next, you have to discuss and assign jobs to each group members. If they are good at typing, let them type; if they are good at researching, let them research ; if they are good at interviewing others, let them do so, you must not assign jobs that the group members are not good at. If you do so, that will always waste his/her time.

A good project should invovles one or more content pages, an index, information about the topics, interviewing conversations ( opional ), a conclusion and group members' feelings. Group members have to set the content pages together in order to let all the members to know what they have to do, also always hold some meetings to see if there are any difficulties.

When you find any information on reliable websites or books,don't copy them directly,anaylise it and rewrite it again. Usually you can present the data in a passage form, but if you use charts and graphs, that will be easier for people to look at your data.

You can also set some questionaires to let other people fill in and symmaise the information into graphs. For interviewing conservations, you can find some well-known people and interview them. During the interview, ask them questions in a polite manner. You should always drop down the main points.

A conclusion is the most important element in the project, when your group has finished all the work, concluded the data in passage form. Marks would be deducted if you have not written a conclusion page. Pictures have also to be included in the conclusion. After writing a conclusion page, ask you members their feelings and write them down on the members' feelings part. You must write down the difficulties experienced during the project and how you solved any difficulties.

You must put down the sources of information and include the names of the books, websites, newspapers, people who helped you etc. Finally, you have to draw/design the cover page and the last page. You should use ordinary colour pens to colour the pictures and charts. ( Don't forget to write down your group members' names on the cover page!!)

You must hand in on time or earlier that will give a good impression to teacher that give you high marks. If you need do presentation, gather all the group members and discuss things that you have to talk. Avoid deplication or contradiction.