Sometimes what we learn in college doesn't match the students we are blessed with... sometimes we are forced to step out of our comfort zones to meet the needs of our students, which is what we want to do right? This becomes a lot easier when we use projects in the classroom to enhance student learning. This approach makes the students feel as if they are part of the learning and meets their needs. For example, students that I teach (which happen to be inner city, all behavior problems, and all have been kicked out of school or just got out of jail) could care less about hurricane patterns and even less about how they work. However, it is required that we teach them about this topic. I use basketball to teach hurricane patterns- when you backspin a basketball it is similar to the pattern of a hurricane