This document discusses using IT-based projects to develop higher thinking skills and creativity. It contains two chapters that outline different types of IT projects: resource-based projects where students find their own information on a given topic, simple creations where students make their own materials, guided hypermedia projects where students create multimedia presentations, and web-based projects where students build websites. It also compares the traditional learning model where teachers provide information to students, to the resource-based model where students explore topics independently. Finally, it lists different complex thinking skills and sub-skills that can be developed through IT projects, such as focusing, analyzing, generating, organizing, and evaluating.