Participating groups are encouraged to develop their own cross-disciplinary project plans on SARS themes and present their findings through multi-media demonstrations. Group projects are encouraged as they provide opportunities for purposeful learning.

Students take an active role in planning and implementing the learning activities. They search for answers to questions through their own efforts. The process is as important as the actual outcomes in the entire learning activity.

Two briefing sessions were held in June for interested students and teachers. Mr Ip Kin-yuen, Lecturer of the Department of Educational Policy and Administration of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, spoke about the choice of theme, the planning process, the division of labour, presentation skills and the evaluation of group projects. He emphasised that, for students, learning should be an active process of searching for and constructing knowledge instead of relying passively on what teachers teach and what textbooks tell.