Why shouldn Projects be memorized?
Students should be able to speak about what they have learned when doing a project. For this reason, most projects have an oral reporting component at the end (as opposed to a written report). Students will be taught different ways to show information – IPDs – Information Presentation Devices such as charts, diagrams, collages, models etc. Most projects will require that the student have 1) a cue card 2) a book with at least one image/photo tagged to show to the class and 3) an artifact of some kind. When students memorize a script, for the listener it is often not as interesting a presentation. It is also harder to tell if the student actually knows what they are talking about. The energy that goes into memorizing something would be better spent on learning about the topic. Usually in grade 4 students are unable to memorize large amount of technical information and so try to read their notes. In these cases, many of the notes are directly copied out from texts. For this reason, studen
