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Intro

Your Guide to the Personal Project

Class of 2024

MYP Personal Project

What is it?

The Personal Project is

  • A culminating experience of the MYP experience
  • Designed to strengthen personal learning
  • An investigation into a personal passion

Goals

Goals of the personal project

  • Participate in a sustained, self-directed inquiry with a global context
  • Develop deeper understandings
  • Actively take part in the learning process

Requirements

Requirements of the Personal Project

  • Select a Topic
  • Create an Inquiry Question to Research
  • Record the Process in a Journal
  • Conduct Research and Answer Your Question
  • Complete a Written Report
  • Present Your Project

Topic

Selection

Finding Your Passion

Brain-

Storm

What's Important to you?

Take a few minutes to jot down some of your interests

Performing Arts

Human Rights

Language

Science

What might motivate your choice of topic?

Take some time to answer the questions on your worksheet.

Global

Context

Global Context

Global Context Allows You to Make Connections with your Independent Learning

Identities and Relationships

Who am I? Who are we?

human relationships

identity

what it means to be human

personal health

beliefs and values

Orientation in Space and Time

What is the meaning of "where" and "when"

discoveries

explorations

interconnectedness

civilizations

personal histories

Personal and Cultural Expression

What is the nature and purpose of creative expression?

culture

appreciation

beliefs

values

feelings

Scientific and Technical Innovations

How do we understand the world in which we live?

impact

environments

natural world

adapt

scientific principles

interaction

Fairness and Development

What are the consequences of out common humanity?

equal opportunities

conflict resolution

rights and responsibilities

finite resources

Globalization and Sustainability

How is everything connected?

decision-making

human-made systems

local and global processes

Selection

Topic and Global Context

Narrowing your focus

What is your topic?

What is the Global context?

How will you explore your global context?

Explain

Explain the relationship between your global context and your topic.

Investigating

Investigating

Goal

Setting

Goal Setting

Develop a clear and challenging goal

  • Clear: Your goal statement needs to be clear and concise
  • Your goal should be realistic, but challenge you as a learner

Creating a highly challenging goal

  • Basic goal
  • Challenging goal
  • A highly challenging goal
  • Consider the number of verbs you have in the goal.

A good goal is SMART

Specific

Your goal should answer: who, what, when, where, which, and why?

Measurable

How much? How many? How will I know when it is accomplished?

Attainable

Should be attainable, but challenge you

Realistic

Represent a objective toward which you are willing and able to work

Timely

Should be linked to a time frame that is realistic

Examples of highly challenging goals

Prior

Learning

Utilizing Prior Learning

What have you learned or are currently learning in school? What information or skills can you use to start your project?

Historical Events

Art Skills

Cultural Practices

Scientific Breakthroughs

Research

Guide your research

Essential Question - this will guide your research and be answered in your report

thought provoking

support and justification

open-ended

sparks inquiry

McTighe, J., & Wiggins, G. (2013). Essential Questions: Opening Doors to Student Understanding. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Example Essential Questions

Sources - Minimum of 4

Interviews

Articles

Podcast

Access the school library website https://sites.google.com/egusd.net/laguna-creek-library/home

Evaluating Sources

Who?

When?

Where?

What?

How?

Why?

Citing Sources

MLA 8 - use the OWL Lab from Purdue or MLA Assistance on our school library site.

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_style_introduction.html

https://sites.google.com/egusd.net/laguna-creek-library/research-guide/mla-formatting-and-documentation?authuser=1

Approaches to Learning

Process

Journal

The Process Journal is

a tool

written or electronic

sources

recording ATL's

Planning

Planning

Product

Determine your project product or outcome

Define your Criteria

Form

Materials/Resources

Function

User/Audience

Cost

Development

Process

Make a Plan

Self-

Management

Self Management Skills

The World is Watching

Taking

Action

Create

Create Your Product

Thinking

Skills

Thinking Skills

Communication

& Social Skills

Communication and Social Skills

Reflecting

Reflecting

Evaluate

Evaluate the quality of your product/outcome

Use the criteria you created

Completion

Reflect on

  • Your extended knowledge and understanding of the topic and
  • The global context and their connection

Personal

Growth

Rate Your Approaches to Learning Skills

Culmination

Culmination

Written

Report

Written Report

Report Requirements

  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Body
  • Investigation
  • Planning
  • Taking Action
  • Reflection
  • Bibliography
  • Appendices

Title Page

Table of Contents

Body - Investigating

Body - Planning

Body - Reflecting

Bibliography

Make sure to cite all sources in MLA Format

Appendices

  • Provides evidence for your research
  • Any graphs or charts
  • Minimum of ten journal excerpts

Present

your

Product

Present to

  • Parents
  • Faculty and Staff
  • School Partners
  • District Personal

Examples

Some examples to look at

https://sites.google.com/site/gfhsmyppersonalproject/example-projects

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