III. 1. Types of pedagogical projects

Pedagogical projects can be classified by their different characteristics. These are as follows:

• Choice of topic
• Project theme or content
• Complexity/interdisciplinarity of the project
• Its relationship to time spent at school
• Its length
• Number of participants
• End product

1. By choice of topic:

• School teachers call for participation in international- national or local projects and learners may apply.
• On the basis of their interests learners form SIGs (Special Interest Groups) and they choose a topic from the offer to work on, or, they find a new topic to investigate.

2. By project theme or content:

• Curriculum-related or teaching materials-related projects
• Projects, partially related to the curriculum or teaching material
• Projects, unrelated to the curriculum or teaching material

3. By complexity/interdisciplinarity:

• Single-subject projects
• Multidisciplinary projects

4. By its relationship to time spent at school:

• Projects done during lessons
• In epochal teaching
• In leisure-time

5. By length:

• short-term projects (to be implemented in one or  in a few school lessons)
• medium-term projects (to be implemented from 1-several weeks)
• long-term projects (their lifecyle is several weeks, even one school year)

6. By the number of participants:

• individual
• small group-based projects
• projects involving a whole class or school (e.g. forest schools, eco-schools, Education for Sustainable Development Schools = ESD projects,bird-friendly schoolyard project. For further details see Unit VIII)
• international projects (e.g.: BEAGLE project. For further details see Unit VIII)

7. By end-product:

• an object, toy, or model
• written piece of work
• drama, film, exhibition, voice recording
• event
• public debate, forum, negotiations.