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Projects are an excellent learning tool that can be implemented into every single subject area. They are great avenues for integrating two or more subject areas and also for generating student interest in a particular area.

Although projects have a great deal of benefits, it may be difficult for a parent to see this when their child either brings home a paper entailing or he verbally describes a project that they are to complete outside of school. Most parents of school-aged children lead hectic, stressful lives as it is with keeping up with such things as their jobs, their families, and paying the bills; they don't need extra surprises, such as expecting to help with school projects. It's no wonder that due to this, many parents dread school projects and think of them more negatively than positively, failing to realize the benefits.

It is important for students to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it. With the time constraints of the school day, the many curriculum standards that a teacher is expected to address throughout the course of a school year, and the pressure of raising standardized test course, it is extremely difficult to devote a significant amount of classroom time to application. This is where the use of special projects come in. The best projects are designed to fit in with what students have learned, are learning, or will be learning in the classroom. With little classroom time available for them, at least some project work is expected to be completed by the student outside of school. Teachers almost always provide students with a rubric or other type of guideline of project expectations either in paper form or on their classroom website, and sometimes both. In most cases, these expectations clearly describe what materials the students need for the project, what the process of the project and entails, and the expected end products that the students are to bring back to the classroom.

Here is a simple step by step process to follow in helping your child with special projects.

1. When your child or teacher informs you of an upcoming project, locate a rubric or other list of expectations that goes along with the project.

2. Talk with your child about the project to hear what they have to say about it and discuss the supplies needed to complete it.

3. Work alongside your child to locate the necessary supplies for the project.

4. Allot time to spend with your child and plan ahead to assure that there is as little chance as possible of distractions

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