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Their are Some potential pit falls in project design. A few potential flaws include long on activity, short on learning outcomes, when technology layers over traditional practice, having trivial thematic units, and having the project be overly scripted. Long on Activity is a problem because although having put together a long detailed stepped project the project may only be aimed at low order learning. It is not worth investing yours or a students time with this. It would be good to look at how much the student could equally learn with your long multiple stepped processes in comparison to a brief lecture or personally reading about that topic. Having technology layering over a traditional practice is another pitfall. Student using technology to research and present that research in a set of slides is not helpful A good way to go about it would be to aim towards your students to reach significant learning growth. Having a project which is pointed to a low level subject when that subject could be instructed so student receive a much more in-depth information on that topic is not a good thing. trivial thematic units can be a pitfall with projects. As a teacher it is important to look for ways to elevate a specific theme. lastly overly scripting a project with many steps can ruin it. student need to be making critical decisions about how they learn. Try not to use over prescriptive project plans and discrete steps for this could lead to predictable results.