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__** IBO MYP Personal project guide **__


Student’s Guide to the Personal Project
 * __PowerPoint Presentation __**

École Mondiale World School

**2011-2012 ** **Student’s Name: _ ** **Supervisor’s Name: ___ **

=Contents PAGE =

What is the Personal Project? 3

What is involved? 6

You and Your Supervisor 7

Final presentation 7

Keeping a Process Journal 7

Writing the Report 8

Making your Creation / Product

Format for Table of Contents 10

Writing a Bibliography 11

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Assessment Criteria 18 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Due Dates/ Deadlines/Timeline for Students and Supervisors 27

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Areas of Interaction 30

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Bibliography 32

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Choosing your topic 34 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Approaches To Learning (ATL list) 37 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Proposal and Templates 39 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Help Desk 44 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Additional Support Materials
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Appendices **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What is the Personal Project? **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The **Personal Project** is exactly what its title says – a personal project. You choose a topic that interests you personally and an //Area Of Interaction// that helps you develop your project with a clear and specific focus. Deciding on the goal of your project can begin with the topic or the area of interaction, but at some point both need to come together and form the goal.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The **Personal Project** is the //major// //interdisciplinary project// you do to show that you are an effective independent learner with the range of necessary skills to be ready to progress to the next stage of your learning. You have to complete and submit a Personal Project during the final year of the MYP.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The **Personal Project** is __similar__ to every other subject you study because you <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> have to:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">complete approximately 40-50 hours of study over an extended period of approximately 6-8 months
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">use many of the Approaches To Learning skills you have learned in your other subjects
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">produce items
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">undergo assessment

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The **Personal Project** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">is different from many of your other subjects because you have to:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">complete your investigation within the context of one Area Of Interaction
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">work independently throughout the course
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">interact with an adult supervisor whose role is to provide guidance and advice only


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What Will I Be Assessed On? **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">YOU WILL BE ASSESSED ONTHREE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF YOUR PROJECT: THE PROCESS JOURNAL, THE CREATION OR PRODUCT, AND THE WRITTEN REPORT. **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What exactly do I have to create for the Personal Project? **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You must create three items: **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Process Journal (similar to the developmental workbook in arts) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Product or Outcome for display that shows other people what you did **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A Project Report **


 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1. ** **__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> The Process Journal __**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Your process journal is the record of your involvement in the Personal Project process. It should record all your ideas, your planning, your discussions, clippings of readings and concepts, diary excerpts, meeting schedules and outcomes with your supervisor, photographs – whatever you do that is part of the process should be kept in this document. You choose the format of your journal. It might be a scrapbook, a note book, an electronic site for example**.**


 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2. ** **__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> The Product or Outcome __**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The product you create is how you show other people what you have investigated. Apart from your journal, which will be part of the display, you need to have some way of showing what you produced or achieved for your goal. This might be the actual product such as a model, electronic article, artwork or it might be visuals of the outcome such as photographs of an event you organised.


 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> __The Project Report__ **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The report you produce can be in different formats; it can be written, oral or in multi-media form. You will need to think carefully about how you report your project and how you work best. To prepare an oral report will take as long to prepare as a written report.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Therefore photographs of the project at different stages are important. Unless your project is something in written form (i.e. creative writing, such as a short story or novel, or a business proposal) your actual project will not be sent (i.e. sculpture, teddy bears, handmade clothing). DVDs are the exception. This means that within your project you must show (through photographs) the development of your project. We do not physically send large projects to the IB for moderation.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You will need to think of and develop a project of your own choosing. It should be something you will be able to maintain interest in over an extended period of time, and something very specific.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Some past examples are: **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ballet: movement and background of the fine art <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Recycled man: sculpture from recycled material <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Construction of a model (e.g. bike cart, plane, building) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Creation of a computer game <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Webpage development for a local company <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Creative writing/publishing: short story <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Pottery from west to east <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Behavioural patterns in young children: how to make a difference <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Creations from stained glass <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Literary magazine <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Violence in sport <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Black and white photography <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Water colour technique and design <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cheese making <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Jazz ballet choreography <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sculpture <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Designing and creating an item of clothing or jewelry <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Creating a new sport or game (for a certain age group?) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How fourth graders learn language <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How different types of music are used in advertising <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The importance of sports for handicapped people <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Researching an idea (e.g. how colours affect our moods)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Whatever type of personal project you decide on, it should:

Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Have a clear and achievable goal Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Be focused on one **Area of Interaction** Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Allow you to express a truly personal message Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Be the result of your initiative, creativity and ability to organize and plan Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reflect your special interests, hobbies, special abilities, or concerns about particular issues Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Deal with a topic or area to which you are committed Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Be entirely your own work – authenticity is very important and you may be required to sign a document stating that the personal project is your own work

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Depending on your goal, you might choose one of the following types of projects:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **Type of Personal Project Can I Do?**

Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">An original work of art (for example, visual, dramatic or performance)

Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A written piece of work on a special topic (for example, literary, social, psychological or anthropological)

Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A piece of literary fiction (for example, creative writing)

Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">An original science experiment

Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">An invention or specially designed object or system

Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The presentation of a developed business, management or organizational plan that is, for an entrepreneurial business or project, a special event, or the development of a new community or student organization.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What is Involved?
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The project is completed __in your own time__. The Project starts during Year 10. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Personal Project is a significant body of work produced over an extended period of time (approximately 9 months). You will be required to spend time investigating, planning, developing, creating and evaluating your idea. You will be required to meet regularly with your supervisor. You will need to spend time analyzing and evaluating your project in a Written Presentation. You will need to spend time preparing for the Final presentation where you show the school community your work.
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">1. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">YOUR TIME **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The project involves you maintaining a process journal. This is written and/or visual documentation of your project: the investigating, planning, developing, creating and evaluating. It will be your main reference point for when you start evaluating the process. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You will be expected to make regular entries in your journal. Your entries can be personal and should be an expression of your successes, exasperation, problems, changes, and so on. Your journal should also be the place where you keep all your resource and bibliographical information (for later use in your written presentation). You may glue things in it; draw diagrams, rave if you wish. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You are required to display this during the Final presentation day. //
 * **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Keeping a Process Journal //**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You will have to express your project in words that must not exceed 3500 words. It must be a minimum of 1500 words. Documentation of your project (photographs etc.) at all stages will need to be combined with your written statement. //Your treatment of the Areas of Interaction is extremely important. Your analysis and reflection is extremely important.//
 * **//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Writing the Personal Project Report //**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You must explore your idea though at least one of the Areas of Interaction (//Health and Social Education, Environments, Human Ingenuity, Community and Service//).
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> A Critical Analysis through ONE Area of Interaction **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Approaches To Learning must be a part of your choice and actively referenced throughout your report. ATLs are implicit within all subjects.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You will incorporate and elaborate upon the ATL skills you have learnt: (organizational skills, collaborative skills, communication skills, information literacy, problem solving and thinking skills and reflection).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> B. This means, that an Area of Interaction should be central to your project. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> //You will need to consider the guiding questions for each area of interaction and explore them in relation to your project.// Your treatment of this is assessed in criterion F: Analysis of Process and Outcome. Please refer to the criteria for more information.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You are expected to meet all deadlines mentioned in the timeline. You are expected to meet regularly with your Supervisor. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">You will be assigned a supervisor. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Your Supervisor’s Responsibilities: Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Advise you throughout the project; Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Meet you on a regular basis; Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ensure you are aware of, and keep to all deadlines; Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Not necessarily be an expert in what you want to do but may be able to guide you in the right direction; Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Check the development of your process journal; Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Look at drafts of your written presentation and suggest ways you might improve; Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Assess your written presentation in conjunction with other supervisors. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You must attend all meetings promptly and bring your Process Journal to each meeting, as well as the appropriate equipment. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do not meet your supervisor in the hallway and expect an interview on the spot. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If you cannot meet your supervisor, arrange an alternative time in advance. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Consider the supervisor’s suggestions
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">2. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;"> Keeping Deadlines **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">YOU AND YOUR SUPERVISOR
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Your Responsibilities: **
 * Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Meet your deadlines and due dates for your written and created work.


 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">3. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">Preparing for the ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">Final presentation: Presenting the Outcome **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">An Final presentation of all the Projects done by the students of year 11 is held towards the end of the personal project (see timeline).

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This is your opportunity to **//display the Creation or Product//** that you have worked on and the process you’ve gone through in the past months. Your parents will be invited along with other students, staff and the community of EMWS.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You will need to prepare a visual presentation for the day. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> You will also need to explain and be prepared to answer questions about your project.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Useful Tips for Exhibiting your Work:

 * Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Always assume that the people who look at your project know little of nothing about the topic.


 * Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use drawings and pictures only if they add to the clarity of the personal project.


 * Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Be prepared to discuss your project and explain what you’ve done.


 * Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use feedback from visitors in your written presentation (due after Final presentation). **


 * Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Come and see me or your supervisor if you have any questions.


 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">4. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;"> Written Personal Report **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Your written report is a visual and written record of your project at all stages. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;"> It should not exceed 3500 words. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Personal report of all types of personal projects will follow the same general structure, and will include the following elements: Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Title page Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Table of Contents Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Introduction, defining the goal of the project and an explicit focus on the chosen area(s) of interaction, and providing an outline of how the student intends to achieve the goal Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Description of the process, including production steps, the characteristics, aspects or components of the work Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Analysis of the inspiration, research and influences guiding the work, the findings and decisions made, the resulting product and the process in terms of the goal and its focus on the area(s) of interaction chosen (where the student has chosen to write an essay about a specific issue, the essay itself forms the main part of this analysis) Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Conclusion, where the student reflects on the impact of his/her project, and on new perspectives that could be considered Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Bibliography Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Appendices, where appropriate <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Where students write an essay, the essay must be incorporated into the required structure. In this case the written work must not exceed 3500 words. Where a student chooses creative writing (for example, a set of short stories), the student must agree with their supervisor upon the length. The personal statement will be shorter in these cases. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Personal reflection and analysis, at all stages of your project, is extremely important. A maintained and detailed journal will help you make your personal statement a meaningful and authentic piece of work. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Anin-depth consideration of at least one Area of Interaction is extremely important. You must look at your project ‘through’ an Area of Interaction. The guiding questions (page 25 of this EMWS guide) will help you make your personal statement a meaningful and authentic piece of work. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Include photographs of the project at different stages of its development. Documentation of the process is very important. Unless your project is something in written form (i.e. creative writing) your actual product will not be sent because it is too large. DVDs are the exception. **

= = = = = = =__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Suggested Format for Table of Contents of the Personal Report __=

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Contents Page #
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(See guide to writing the report for details)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Introduction **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **Page #**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Description of the Process Page # **


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A. Choice and Application of techniques


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Analysis **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Page # **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A. Analysis of Research

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> B. Analysis of |Process and the Outcome page
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1. Research about my product
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2. Research about my AOI
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3. Research for new ideas

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> C. Evaluation of my product
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1. Achieving my goal
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2. Focusing on an area of interaction
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3. Inspiration
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">4. Planning
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5. Research
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">6. Creation


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Conclusion **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **Page #**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Bibliography Page # **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Appendices **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **Page #**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Writing a Bibliography **

** How to Document Sources in MLA Style ** A Works Cited list is a list of sources used in researching an essay or project. Even if you put the information into your own words, you must cite your sources. // The examples in this works cited list are written in the Modern Language Association (MLA) style, which is widely used in the Humanities. // Although the works cited list appears at the end of your paper, you will need to keep track of your sources from the time you begin your research. The rules for creating an MLA works cited list are: Ø <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Use Times New Roman 12-point font throughout, including title. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Centre the title Works Cited. Do not underline, use boldface, or otherwise decorate. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Double-space – both between and within entries. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Use hanging indent paragraph style, which aligns the first line with the left margin and indents all subsequent lines .5 inches from the left margin. (In Word, go to Format, Paragraph, then under Indentation, use the drop-down menu to select “hanging”, click OK.) Ø <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Type all authors’ names with the last name first, separated by a comma followed by the full first name. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Capitalize all significant words in titles of books, journals and articles. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Use //italics// for the titles of books, periodicals, web pages, databases, television and radio shows. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Use quotation marks around the titles of periodical and encyclopedia articles. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">After the title, give the place of publication, followed by a colon, space name of publisher **excluding** “Co.,” “Inc.,” etc, then a comma and the date of publication. Lastname, Firstname. //Title of Book.// Place of Publication: Publisher, Copyright Date. Medium of Publication. || //General Format// (Author surname, Page number). || One author || Jackson, Matthew. //The Korean War.// 2nd ed. London: Penguin Classics, 1981. Print. || (Jackson 354). || //Unpublished Interviews:// Last Name of Interviewee, First Name. Personal interview. Date. //General Format// //Published Interviews:// Name of Interviewee. “Name of Interview.” //Title of TV Show/Book/Film Series.// Medium. || //Interviews:// Cite according to source of interview. || Seeds of Hunger.” //YouTube//. Journeymanpictures, 8 January 2008. Web. 14 October 2010. <[]>. || (Journeymanpictures). || [|artMakerDetails?maker=2952]>. || (Manet). || No author || "Albert Einstein." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 28 Dec. 2010. Web. 29 Dec. 2010. <[]>. || (“Albert Einstein”). || < [] [|CW69-1-112-1E.pdf>]. || (Hines and Robertson). || [|the-whale-man.html]>. || (Langman). ||
 * Ø Arrange in alphabetical order by the author’s last name or, if there is no author, by the first main word of the title.
 * Type of Reference ||  References  ||  Citations in Text  ||
 * BOOKS || //General Format//
 * Book
 * Book with two authors || Flannery, Sam, and Diana Baker. //In Code: A Mathematical Journey//. London: Profile Books, 2000. Print. || (Flannery and Baker 79). ||
 * Book with three or more authors || Berger, Lawrence, et al. //Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT.// New York: Workman, 1998. Print. || (Berger et al. 283). ||
 * Edited book || Burley, Jonathon, and Jan Harris, eds. //A Companion to Genetics.// Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. Print. || (Burley and Harris 153). ||
 * Article in a reference book || “Crusades.” //The World Book Encyclopedia.// 2006. Print. || (“Crusades” 1159). ||
 * Corporate Author or Organization || American Diabetic Association. //Diabetes in Children.// New York: McMillan, 2005. Print. || (American Diabetic Association 96). ||
 * INTERVIEWS || //General Format//
 * Unpublished interview || Clooney, George. Personal interview. 21 Dec. 2009. || (Clooney). ||
 * Published Interview || Suzuki, David. “Message of Hope.” //IBWorld// Jan. 2010: 10-13. Print. || (Suzuki 10-13). ||
 * PRINT MEDIA ||
 * Article in a Magazine - No Author || “Iraq: The South is a Mess Too.” (2005, April 19). //The Economist,// 376 April 2005: 49-52. Print. || (“Iraq: The South” 49-52). ||
 * Scholarly Journal Article || Murphy, Joseph. (1999). “Doing Research in English.” //Modern English Teacher//, 7.12(1999): 21-30. Print. || (Murphy 21-30). ||
 * Newspaper Article || Kabeer, Yusef. “G-77 Meet Focuses on Sustainable Use of Water.” //Oman Daily Observer// 24 Feb. 2009: 1. Print. || (Kabeer 1). ||
 * AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA ||
 * Recorded Film or Movie || //Apollo 13.// Dir. Ron Howard. Perf. Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon and Ed Harris. Universal, 1995. DVD. || (Apollo 13). ||
 * Broadcast Television or Radio Program || “The Blessing Way.” //The X-Files.// Fox. WXIA, Atlanta. 19 Jul. 1998. Television. || (“The Blessing Way”). ||
 * Sound Recordings || Bocelli, Andrea. “Vivere.” //The Best of Andrea Bocelli.// Sugar, 2007. CD. || (Bocelli). ||
 * Digital Files (PDFs, MP3’s JPEGs) || Reeves, Dianne. //Pretend.// Concord Records, 2005. MP3 file. || (Reeves). ||
 * INTERNET SOURCES ||
 * YouTube Video || Journeymanpictures. “South Africa: Sowing the
 * Audio Podcast || “Carrie Fisher.” //Mornings with Margaret Throsby.// Classic FM. ABC, Sydney. 18 Oct. 2010. //ABC Classic FM.// Web. 14 Oct. 2010. <[].> || (“Carrie Fisher”). ||
 * Electronic Image || Manet, Edouard. Bullfight. 1865. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. //The Getty//. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. <[|http://www.gettyedu/art/gettyguide/]
 * Chapter/Section of a Web Document or Online Book Chapter || Holtzclaw, Theresa. "Transpiration." //PH School - The Biology Place//. Pearson Education, 2010. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. <[][|labbench/lab9/intro.html>.] || (Holtzclaw). ||
 * Web Page
 * Electronic Book || Mazumdar, Dipak and Sandip Sarkar. //Globalization, Labor Markets and Inequality in India//. Oxford: Routledge, 2008. N. pag. //International Development Research Centre//. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. <[]>. || (Mazumdar and Sarkar). ||
 * Government Document || Environment Canada. Canadian Wildlife Service. //Surveys of Geese and Swans in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Western Canadian Arctic, 1989-2001//. By James R. Hines, Jr. and Myra Robertson. Ottawa: Environment Canada Canadian Wildlife Service Publications, 2006. //Government of Canada Publications//. Web. 8 Nov. 2010.
 * Article in an Electronic Magazine (ezine) || Langman, Jimmy. "The Whale Man." //Newsweek// 26 June 2008: 1-2. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. < <[]
 * DATABASE SOURCES ||  ||   ||
 * Article from a magazine: Global Issues in Context database || Theil, Stefan. “A Green Retreat.” //Newsweek International// 19 July 2010: 22-24. //Global Issues in Context.// Web. 19 Oct. 2010. || (Theil 22-24). ||
 * Article from Encyclopedia Britannica database || "Arizona." //Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition//. Encyclopedia Britannica, 2010. Web. 19 Oct. 2010. || (“Arizona”).

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 * Magazine Article from Questia Database || Jordan, Stuart. "The Global Warming Crisis." //The Humanist// (Nov.-Dec. 2005): 23+. //Questia Online Library//. Web. 20 Oct. 2010. || (Jordon 23+). ||
 * CD-ROM SOURCES ||  ||   ||
 * Article from Encarta Kids || Microsoft Corporation. "Tsunamis." //Microsoft Encarta Kids.// 2008 ed. Vers. 16.0.0.1117. Redmond: Microsoft Corporation, 2008. CD-ROM. || (Microsoft Corporation). ||

Works Cited American Diabetic Association. //Diabetes in Children.// New York: McMillan, 2005. Print. //Apollo 13.// Dir. Ron Howard. Perf. Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon and Ed Harris. Universal, 1995. DVD. “Carrie Fisher.” //Mornings with Margaret Throsby.// Classic FM. ABC, Sydney. 18 Oct. 2010. //ABC Classic FM.// Web. 14 Oct. 2010. <[].> Flannery, Sam, and Diana Baker. //In Code: A Mathematical Journey//. London: Profile Books, 2000. Print. Holtzclaw, Theresa. "Transpiration." //PH School - The Biology Place//. Pearson Education, 2010. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. <[][|labbench/lab9/intro.html>.] Jackson, Matthew. //The Korean War.// 2nd ed. London: Penguin Classics, 1981. Print. Jordan, Stuart. "The Global Warming Crisis." //The Humanist// (Nov.-Dec. 2005): 23+. //Questia Online Library//. Web. 20 Oct. 2010.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How will I be assessed? **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">The Personal Project is assessed against seven criteria. Each criterion is of equal value and has 4 levels of success. The criteria are:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">A: __Use the Process Journal__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">You show that you have used approaches to learning skills when completing the project. This is shown in part through the use of the process journal, as a record and organising tool for your project. You show commitment to completing the project through meeting deadlines, organising your materials, interacting with your supervisor, and dealing positively with challenges that arise. You record your thinking and ideas as you progress through your project.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">B: __Define the Goal__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">You show that you have a clear project goal associated directly with an area of interaction and a topic that interests you personally, and that you have defined specifications to be able to evaluate your goal.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">C: __Select Sources__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">You show that you have accessed a variety of sources and that you are able to evaluate these sources, for example in terms of whether they are reliable.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">D: __Apply Information__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> You show that you have used the information you gathered from your sources in order to complete the goal. This might be through the development of techniques, problem-solving strategies or analysis of the information you selected. You show that you have thought about the information you selected and used it in some way to further your project.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">E: __Achieve the Goal__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> You complete the goal and evaluate the outcome or product. You award yourself a level of achievement using the specifications you created at the beginning of your project to guide you. You get input from your supervisor for the final level.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">F: __Reflect on Learning__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">You show that you have developed a new understanding of the topic and area of interaction through deep and detailed reflection on what you have done and what you have learned by doing it. You show that you have developed a clear personal understanding of, and response to, the project topic and area of interaction because you have carefully analysed the information you have gathered.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">G: __Report the Project__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">You show that you have organised your project report by using appropriate presentation and linguistic conventions, in whichever format you have chosen. You meet the requirements for the word or time count of the text.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">On the Following Pages, the ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">7 ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Criteria of Assessment are listed with the appropriate Descriptors of Achievement. **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Criterion A: Use the Process Journal
Maximum: 4 Students should: <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• demonstrate organizational skills showing time- and self-management <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• communicate and collaborate with the supervisor <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• demonstrate information literacy, thinking and reflection. The section “Completing the project” in this guide has guidance concerning the type of evidence that students should include in the process journal. Supervisors should also refer to the areas of interaction section in the guide //MYP: From principles into practice// (August 2008), for specific guidance concerning ATL. The extracts chosen to support the level awarded for criterion A should reflect each of the strands in the criterion. Between 10 and 20 individual entries are sufficient to represent the student’s work. An individual entry does not need to be extensive and includes any of the examples that students might use to document the process, referred to in the subsection “Using the process journal”. ** Achievement ** ||  ** Descriptor **  || 0 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.6667px;">The student has not reached a standard described by any of the descriptors given below. || 1  || The student demonstrates **minimal**: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• organizational skills through time and self-management <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• communication and collaboration with the supervisor <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• information literacy, thinking and reflection. || 2  ||  The student demonstrates **some**: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• organizational skills through time and self-management <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• communication and collaboration with the supervisor <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• information literacy, thinking and reflection. || 3  || The student demonstrates **satisfactory**: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• organizational skills through time and self-management <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• communication and collaboration with the supervisor <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• information literacy, thinking and reflection. || 4  || The student demonstrates **well-developed**: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• organizational skills through time and self-management <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• communication and collaboration with the supervisor <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• information literacy, thinking and reflection. ||
 * Extracts from the process journal must be submitted in samples of work for external moderation to support the level awarded for criterion A.**
 * ** Level of **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Criterion B: Define the Goal
Maximum: 4 Students should: <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• identify and explain a topic based on personal interest <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• justify one focus area of interaction as a context for the project <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• outline a clear, achievable, challenging goal <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• create specifications that will be used to evaluate the project’s outcome/product. The specifications for the product/outcome created by the student, in consultation with the project supervisor, are used to evaluate the success of the project. These student-created specifications for their product/outcome link to criterion E, in which the student evaluates his or her outcome/product. ** Achievement ** || ====Descriptor==== || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">0 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.6667px;">The student has not reached a standard described by any of the descriptors given below. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">1 || The student: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **identifies** the topic of interest, a focus area of interaction and a **limited** goal <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **creates minimal** specifications to evaluate the project’s outcome/product **or** none at all. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">2 || The student: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **outlines superficially** the topic of interest, the focus area of interaction and an **achievable** goal <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **creates specifications for evaluating the project’s outcome/product**, however they **lack definition**. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">3 || The student: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **describes clearly** the topic of interest, the focus area of interaction and an **achievable** and **appropriately challenging** goal <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **creates** **satisfactory** specifications for evaluating the project’s outcome/product. || 4  || The student: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **justifies effectively** the topic of interest, the focus area of interaction and an **achievable** and **appropriately challenging** goal <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **creates** **appropriately rigorous** specifications for evaluating the project’s outcome/product. ||
 * ** Level of **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Criterion C: Select Sources
Maximum: 4 Students should: <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• select varied, relevant sources to achieve the goal <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• evaluate sources. Evidence will be seen in the body of the report and the bibliography. ** Achievement ** || ====Descriptor==== || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">0 || The student has not reached a standard described by any of the descriptors given below. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">1 || The student: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• selects **very few** relevant sources to achieve the goal <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• demonstrates **minimal** evaluation of sources. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">2 || The student: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• selects **some** relevant sources to achieve the goal <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• demonstrates **some** evaluation of sources. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">3 || The student: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• selects **a satisfactory variety** of relevant sources to achieve the goal <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• demonstrates **satisfactory** evaluation of sources. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">4 || The student: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• selects **a wide variety** of relevant sources to achieve the goal <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• demonstrates **well-developed** evaluation of sources. ||
 * ** Level of **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Criterion D: Apply Information
Maximum: 4 Students should: <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• transfer and apply information to make decisions, create solutions and develop understandings in connection with the project’s goal. Students interpret the information from sources they have researched and selected. By thinking about the information, students develop a broader context for their inquiry; identify questions and issues for their project and solve problems. Students may have researched information relating to techniques, which can be discussed in the context of this objective.

** Achievement ** ||  ** Descriptor **  || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">0 || The student has not reached a standard described by any of the descriptors given below. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">1 || The student demonstrates **minimal**: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• transfer and application of information to make decisions, create solutions and develop understandings in connection with the project’s goal. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">2 || The student demonstrates **some**: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• transfer and application of information to make decisions, create solutions and develop understandings in connection with the project’s goal. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">3 || The student demonstrates **satisfactory**: <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• transfer and application of information to make decisions, create solutions and develop understandings in connection with the project’s goal. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">4 || The student demonstrates **well-developed**: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• transfer and application of information to make decisions, create solutions and develop understandings in connection with the project’s goal. ||
 * ** Level of **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Criterion E: Achieve the Goal
Maximum: 4 Students should: <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• evaluate the outcome/product against their own specifications for success. The final level awarded is decided in collaboration with the supervisor. It is crucial that the specifications are developed by the student before completing the project (see criterion B). The student must discuss any changes in the specifications that took place during the process in his or her report. Where a student does not complete the outcome/product because of factors outside of his or her control, criterion E applies to the stage that the project reached. This criterion is not adjusted in the external moderation process. ** Achievement ** || ====Descriptor==== || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">0 || The student has not reached a standard described by any of the descriptors given below. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">1 || The student evaluates the quality of the outcome/product. The outcome/product is of very **limited** quality and meets **few** of the specifications. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">2 || The student evaluates the quality of the outcome/product. The outcome/product is of **limited** quality and meets **some** of the specifications. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">3 || The student evaluates the quality of the outcome/product. The outcome/product is of **satisfactory** quality and meets **many** of the specifications. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">4 || The student evaluates the quality of the outcome/product. The outcome/product is of **high** quality and meets **most or all** of the specifications. ||
 * ** Level of **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Criterion F: Reflect on Learning
Maximum: 4 Students should: <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• reflect on how completing the project has extended their knowledge and understanding of the topic **and** the focus area of interaction <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• reflect on how they have developed as a learner by completing the project. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.6667px;">This criterion addresses the quality of ideas expressed not the quality of language used. // ** Achievement **  || ====Descriptor==== || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">0 || The student has not reached a standard described by any of the descriptors given below. || 1  || The student demonstrates **minimal**: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• reflection on how completing the project has extended his or her knowledge and understanding of the topic and focus area of interaction <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• reflection on how he or she has developed as a learner by completing the project. || 2  || The student demonstrates **some**: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• reflection on how completing the project has extended his or her knowledge and understanding of the topic and focus area of interaction <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• reflection on how he or she has developed as a learner by completing the project. || 3  || The student demonstrates **satisfactory**: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• reflection on how completing the project has extended his or her knowledge and understanding of the topic and chosen area of interaction <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• reflection on how he or she has developed as a learner by completing the project. || 4  || The student demonstrates **well-developed**: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• reflection on how completing the project has extended his or her knowledge and understanding of the topic and focus area of interaction <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• reflection on how he or she has developed as a learner by completing the project. ||
 * ** Level of **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Criterion G: Personal Engagement
Maximum: 4 Students should: <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• organize the project report according to the required structure <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• communicate clearly, coherently and concisely, within required limits <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">• acknowledge sources according to recognized conventions. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.6667px;">This criterion will include judgments about presentation, writing (or speaking) conventions, mechanics, grammar, word choice, voice, audience, for example. // ** Achievement **  || ====Descriptor==== || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">0 || The student has not reached a standard described by any of the descriptors given below. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">1 || The student demonstrates: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **minimal** organization of the project report according to the required structure <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• communication, which is **rarely** clear, coherent and concise and may not meet required limits <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **inaccurate** use of recognized conventions to acknowledge sources or **no acknowledgement** of sources. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">2 || The student demonstrates: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **some** organization of the project report according to the required structure <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• communication, which is **sometimes** clear, coherent and concise and is within required limits <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **some** accurate use of recognized conventions to acknowledge sources. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">3 || The student demonstrates: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **satisfactory** organization of the project report according to the required structure <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• communication, which is **generally** clear, coherent and concise and is within required limits <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **generally** accurate use of recognized conventions to acknowledge sources. || <span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRoman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">4 || The student demonstrates: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **consistent** organization of the project report according to the required structure <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• communication, which is clear, coherent and concise and is within required limits <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">• **accurate** use of recognized conventions to acknowledge sources, possibly with minor errors. ||
 * ** Level of **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">MYP Personal Project Grade Boundaries **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This is how your PP grade is calculated:


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Each criterion (7 altogether) is worth 4 marks. The total marks for the PP is 28.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You can then use the MYP grade boundaries below to calculate what your overall MYP grade will be.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Remember that an MYP grade of 3 and above ( total of a **minimum** of 10 marks out of 28) is needed for you to pass your PP. If you do not pass your PP, you will not qualify for an IB validated MYP Certificate. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If you fail your PP you WILL not be allowed to progress to the IB diploma courses as you will likely not be successful in the Extended Essay. You will be advised to study the IB Diploma Certificates Programme.


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Grade ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Boundaries **  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1 Very Poor || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">0-5  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2 Poor || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">6-9  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3 Mediocre || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">10-13  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">4 Satisfactory || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">14-16  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5 Good || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">17-21  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">6 Very Good || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">22-24  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">7 Excellent || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">25-28  ||


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Please Note: Boundaries subject to IB Revision in September 2011.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Due Dates, ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Deadlines and Timeline **

|| **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">August 11 **  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Phase || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">When/By  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">What  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Why  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Orientation


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Complete Task 1 - form on p. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> 38 **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Introduction of Supervisor || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Familiarize students with all aspects of the PP (issue handbook). ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Orientation ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">August 18 **  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Complete Task 2 p. 41 **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Get topic in place so that work can be done over the long weekend 19-22aug || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">PP.part 1 ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">25 August **  || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Personal Project Planner due in writing to your allocated Supervisor (p. 42) if you have not already done so ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Students are now ready to proceed with their Personal Project || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Meet regularly with your Supervisor ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hand in Topic Decision Chart to Supervisor & discuss. If you are already done with it use this design for your process journal (its optional) ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Begin the Process Journal
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Orientation ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">August 25 **  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">At least one meeting with supervisor to go over requirements and clarify concerns. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Preparation to work ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">PP.part 1 ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> 02 September 2011 **  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Research, and work on your creation, or product. Start building, sewing, growing whatever you have in mind for your product || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Keep up with your Process journal, your creation and the research and resources search
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Research & Planning || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">29 September 2011 || **__<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PP Written Report Part 1 due to Supervisor __**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **Title/Introduction/Relationship to AOIs/Planning**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Creation/Product well under way **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ongoing investigation || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Continue to arrange meetings with Supervisor <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Maintain Process Journal <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Research your idea (using a range of sources, noting bibliographical information in Journal) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Work on creating your Project (Changes? Materials? Problems? New ideas? New questions?) || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">List of Resources used (Bibliography)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Create || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">11 Nov 2011 || **__<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Due –PP Written Report–Part 2 due to Supervisor __**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Development/Analysis and on-going Reflection to Date/

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">On-going production of creation || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Arrange meetings with supervisor <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Maintain process journal

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Make/build/write/ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">create your project

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Make sure everyone is focused. || || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Organization and planning complete before exams to allow for focus to be on exams from this point on. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-part of assessment of Creation/Product ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Construct || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">15 December 2011 || **__<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Completed Creation due to Supervisor __**  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Creation must be completed before you can finish writing your Report. Student and supervisor sit down and grade the Product according to Criterion E ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Completion || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">05 jan 2012 || **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Final Draft of __full__ PP written Report due to Supervisor **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Completion || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">13 Jan 2012 || **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PERSONAL PROJECT FINAL PRESENTATION **  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Presentation to other students, parents, teachers and other visitors
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Completion || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">20 Jan 2012 || **__<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Final completed version of Written Personal Project Report //plus// Process Journal - due to Supervisor __** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Needs to be assessed and moderated prior to being sent to IBO ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Assessment || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">27 Jan 2012 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Supervisors to mark written Reports and Process Journals ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Moderation || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1 feb 2012 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">-Staff meeting of all Supervisors to moderate the reports

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Your final MYP Personal Project grade will be recorded on your June Report. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **Please note that your final IB Moderated MYP PP grade will be on your IB Certificate which you will receive in September 2012.** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">IBO requirement ||

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26.6667px;">A r e a s o f I n t e r a c t i o n **

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Human Ingenuity __

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">The purpose of Human Ingenuity is to develop opportunities to appreciate the human capacity and drive to create, improve, enjoy, invent, and transform the quality of life over time. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The area of Human Ingenuity should actively and/or passively reflect the following elements:

Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Development of Human thought over time (Create)
Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The ethical development of people through time(Improve)   Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The changing perspectives of aesthetic judgments both socially and culturally (Enjoy) = Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The human ability to create change (Invent) = = Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The human ability to respond to change (Transform) = <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The following questions will help you focus on Human Ingenuity when considering your project:

Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Why and how do we create? ** Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What are the consequences? **

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Health and Social Education __ = = <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The purpose of Health and Social Education is to educate and prepare students for a physically and mentally healthy life. We want our students to become aware of the potential hazards in society, by providing them with relevant information so that they are capable of making informed choices.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">EMWS aims and objectives for Health and Social Education are:

Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Develop the physical, social and psychological person and prepare them for healthy lifestyle. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Develop a sense of responsibility for their own well-being and for that of their physical, social and global environment. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Develop a respect for their own mind and body and for the mind and body of others.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The following questions will help you focus on Health and Social Education when considering your project:

Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How do I think and act? ** Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How am I changing? ** Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How can I look after myself and others? **

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Community and Service __

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Community and Service at EMWS is about encouraging students to think beyond their own immediate wants and needs and provide them with the opportunities to give freely of their time and energy for the benefit others. It is hoped that the students will: Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Experience activities that will benefit others. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Gain an increased sense of responsibility and self worth. Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Apply their skills and talents beyond the classroom environment Ø <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reflect on their performance and benefit from this practice. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The following questions will help you focus on Community and Service when considering your project:

Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How do we live in relation to each other? ** Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How can I contribute to the community? ** Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How can I help others? **

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Environments __

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Environments aims to make students aware of their interdependence with the environments so that they accept their responsibility for maintaining an environments fit <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For the future. Students are confronted with global environmental issues, which require balanced understanding in the context of sustainable development. Students also face <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Environmental situations at home and at school which require decision-making. This area of interaction places the students in a position where they take positive, responsible action for the future. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The following questions will help you focus on Community and Service when considering your project:

Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Where do we live? ** Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">What are my responsibilities? **

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Approaches to Learning __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Approaches to learning (ATL) is central to the MYP, as it is concerned with developing the intellectual discipline, attitudes, strategies and skills which will result in critical, coherent and independent thought and the capacity for problem solving and decision-making. It goes far beyond study skills, having to do with “learning how to learn” and with developing an awareness of thought processes and their strategic use. This area of interaction recognizes that true learning is more than the acquisition of knowledge: it involves its thoughtful application, as well as critical thinking and problem solving, both individually and collaboratively. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The following questions will help you focus on Community and Service when considering your project: Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How do I learn best? ** Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How do I know? ** Ø **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How do I communicate my understanding? **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Bibliography: **

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Personal Project Guide //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">IBO, 2011

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">American Psychology Association Bibliography Handbook //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, retrieved from \\Server_staff\Daily update\Library\NIS Library Web Site\APA Style\APA STYLE.html, 2006

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Personal Project Guide //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ecole Mondiale World School, Mumbai, India//.//

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Other resources from the IBO website. // **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 48px;">Appendix **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">A – GETTING STARTED… **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use the //PLANNING GUIDES and TEMPLATES// contained in this section of your Guidebook to help you plan and work through the different stages of your project.


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Each phase of the Personal Project __**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> needs planning: what you want to do (goal) and when it should be done (deadline).

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You will need to return Your Proposal sheet, signed by you and your parent to the MYP Coordinator by the end of June if you are a returning student or the end of September if you are a new student to this school. (see calendar P. 22)


 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">1. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">Choosing Your Topic **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use the following questions as a guide to help you focus on your strengths and interests, take charge of your own learning and define a topic or area which could form the basis of your Personal Project.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1. What is your favorite subject at school?


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2. What passion(s) do you pursue in your own time?


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3. What types of assignments do you enjoy doing most at school?


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">4. Has there been a topic you have done at school which inspired your interest, but time (or other factors) prevented you from pursuing in your class?


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5. What are you interested in learning more about?


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">6. What skills do you wish to develop, which you cannot develop at school?


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">7. Think about your school, your local community and the wider world. Are there any aspects of community which ignite a spark of interest, or infuriate you because of inaction?


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">8. At this point, what are some of your ideas for your major project?


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">9. How will this topic relate to the Areas of Interaction?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">10.What are some of the preliminary activities you will need to complete, in order to prepare for your Personal Project? (See “Things to do….” On next page)


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">11. How will you research and set about completing your Personal Project?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">12.Will you involve the community? If so, which community and how?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">13.How will you present your project with sufficient time to review your project?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">14.What will be your time line to ensure you complete your project with sufficient time to review your project?


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">15. Refer to the Assessment Criteria (A-G) to see if your topic has the potential to score well. Make any necessary modifications to your goal so that you can maximize your score in each of the criteria.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26.6667px;">2. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">Planning and Development of your Personal Project **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If you’re not asking questions, you’re probably not learning. **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Before making your plan and developing your research proposal in to any kind of reality …… ask yourself the following questions:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHO? Who is your project being created for? Who do you need to seek help from? At school, at home, or in your local community?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHAT? What techniques will you use to create your project? What materials will you choose from? What tools or equipment will you need to create your project?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHEN? When will you need to get each of the sections of your project worked on? Completed?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHY? Why did you choose your particular project? Why did you choose the particular or special techniques/ tools to create your project?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">WHERE? Where will you go to get the necessary materials? At home? In the community? Shops? Factories? Free samples?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">HOW? How is your project connected to the Areas of Interaction? How are you going to plan your project so that you complete it in time?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 26.6667px;">3. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">Your Journal and the Project Process **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Your journal is your record of involvement in your project. Remember, it is be assessed as part of your total mark this year for the first time! **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(a) Select a display book, an exercise book, a scrap book, a shoe box; a video recorder, or use your computer, whichever is better suited to your project. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(b) It is essential that you keep it up to date. Every day that you spend some time on your project, enter information into your journal…..date, time, action. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(c) Collect material samples, select appropriate materials after comparisons, make choices, etc. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(d) Show your thinking about your project. Describe your thoughts, feelings and plans. Record frustrations, describe successes or failures. If obstacles get in your way, describe them and how you overcame them <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(e) Use your observation skills, your thinking skills and your listening/speaking and writing skills to reflect on your progress (or lack of it). <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(f) Organize your material in your workbook ….use dates, post-it notes for labels, etc

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(a) Use your study skills: apply them to your project planning…Can you use brainstorming? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Concept mapping? Asking/posing questions? Comparison? Timelines? Diagrams? Graphs? Surveys? Music? Flowcharts? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Select appropriate methods for your particular project. There will be different methods for different purposes. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(b) Researching from texts or the internet: Note-making? Note-taking? Selecting quotes or facts and figures or photographs or diagrams. Correct bibliographic information should be recorded in your journal as you go…..use the back perhaps? Check for the correct way to acknowledge bibliographic materials. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(c) Photocopy articles, pages from books or internet information (and put them into your process journal) ….highlight draws connections, create link lines, make grid notes (like 6-box framework) and acknowledge all sources of information. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(d) Research your product: its materials, processes involved, jot down your ideas, include your rough sketches, your rough drafts and timeline and finally make a plan. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(e) Take a photograph or use CD-Rom or video to record the process of your project.
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Choose relevant processes to use in your project. **


 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">3. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">Approaches To Learning: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">Some Skills You Might Develop and Use **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Presentation software <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Internet research <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Email <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Computer peripherals (Camera, scanner) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Using data bases for research <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Creating and managing computer based files <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Word processing <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Spreadsheets <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">IT & design <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">CAD <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Graphic calculators <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Graphing packages
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">COMPUTER BASED SKILLS **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Group work skills - practical <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discussion <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Role play <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Class discussion skills <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Peer evaluation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Buddy systems <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Conferencing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">COOPERATIVE LEARNING **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Study skills <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Taking notes- from oral presentation / lecture <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Taking notes – from written sources <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Time Management <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Memorizing material: look, cover, write, check <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Memorizing material: Mnemonics <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Memorizing material: visualization <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Memorizing material: show and tell, demonstration
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">OTHER CORE SKILLS **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Concept mapping <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Problem solving <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Brainstorming <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Meta-cognitivethinking (thinking about thinking) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reflective thinking <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Critical thinking <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Predicting / hypothesizing <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sequencing events <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Self-evaluation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Evaluation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">THINKING **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Constructing an oral presentation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Constructing & presenting an argument – persuasive speaking <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Debating skills <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Voice production & presentation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Body language <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Self expression <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Performance skills <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Effective listening <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Audience skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">SPEAKING AND LISTENING **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Writing a paragraph <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Constructing a report <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Constructing a summary <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Constructing a letter <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Constructing a review <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Writing an essay: literature-based <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Writing an essay: creative <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Writing an essay: scientific / mathematical <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Writing an essay: historical/analytical <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Drafting, proof reading and editing <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Using correct punctuation and sentence structure <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reading skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">LITERACY **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Interviewing techniques <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Constructing a survey / questionnaire <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Evaluation of data: quantitative <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Evaluation of data: qualitative <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Presentation of results: graphing <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Presentation of results: models <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Presentation of results: tables <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Presentation of result: illustrative <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Presentation of results: written <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Library skills –locating & selecting information <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Recording and organising information <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Bibliography <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Referencing <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Timeline/sequencing of information <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Mapping skills <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Using written texts as resources: skimming, scanning & noting <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Research techniques <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Socio-cultural understanding <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Observation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hand-eye coordination <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Developing movement concepts and motor skills <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Expression through movement
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">RESEARCH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PHYSICAL SKILLS **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">B – 5. My Personal Project Proposal FORM **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">N ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">ame ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">: ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Homeroom ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">: _ **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I intend to create/make/build/ /produce: (State what your goal of your Personal project is):

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">My Personal Project will be linked to an Area of Interaction (not including Approaches to Learning): **(CIRCLE ONLY ONE)**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">HUMAN INGENUITY HEALTH & SOCIAL EDUCATION **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">COMMUNITY AND SERVICE ENVIRONMENT **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Explain briefly how your project will be linked to this Area of Interaction. You will need to expand on this in your Project.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">_

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Identify __three__ Approaches to Learning that you will use to achieve your goal:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">SUPERVISOR’S NAME: _ **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am committed to undertake a Personal Project and present it on the Final presentation Day **

__**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Student Signature: //**__ **//Date://**

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I will support my son/ daughter in the undertaking of this special project. __

__**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Parent/ Guardian Signature: //**__**//_ Date://**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Daytime Telephone Contact: _ //**

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am prepared to be the supervisor for this project __

__**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Supervisor’s Signature: //**__**//___ Date:­­­_____//**


 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">6. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;"> Personal Project – Timeline **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ITEM NO. ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DESCRIPTION OF TASK ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DATE STARTED ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DATE COMPLETED ** ||


 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">7. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">MYP Personal Project Supervisor Appointment Sheet **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Supervisor: _

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Student’s Name:

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Homeroom : ___

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A reminder about meeting dates.


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Date || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Time  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Place  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Topic  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Attendance Checklist  ||


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Name: Topic: Date: ||
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">8. ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;"> TOPIC DECISION CHART
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Alternative 2 ||


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Alternative 3 ||


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Alternative 1 ||


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Decision to be made: ||


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Advantages: ||


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Advantages: ||


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Advantages: ||


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Disadvantages: ||


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Disadvantages: ||


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">Disadvantages: ||


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Decision made based on alternative : ||


 * 1) ** 9. ** Personal Project Planner
 * ** Project title ** ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.6667px;">Student ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.6667px;">Supervisor ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.6667px;">Time frame and duration ||  ||
 * Stage 1: Integrate significant idea/topic, area of interaction and personal project question **

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: center;">Which area of interaction will be my focus?
 * ** Area of interaction focus **

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: center;"> Why have I chosen this? ||  ||  ** Significant idea(s)/topic ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: center;">What ideas or topic do I want to explore? What do I want to gain more knowledge and understanding about? What skills do I want to develop || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: center;">What question or statement can I develop from the idea or topic and the area of interaction? || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">What is the goal for my personal project? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">What do I want to achieve or create? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How will I represent or present it? || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How will I know I’ve produced a quality product/outcome? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How will I evaluate my product/outcome? || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">What resources are available to us? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How can my classroom environment, local environment and/or the community be used to facilitate my experiences during this project? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">What knowledge and/or skills will I need to use to enable me to meet the goal and respond to the project question? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">What type of information and techniques will help me complete my project? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Where will I find information from? || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How will this project apply subject-specific and general approaches to learning skills? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Which ATL skills are my strengths? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Are there any ATL skills I need help with? Who can help? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How can I help myself? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How do I keep my process journal? || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">What is my plan for my project? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">What steps do I need to take? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How often do I need to meet my supervisor? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">What are my deadlines? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How will I practise the skills I need? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Do I have enough prior knowledge to be able to complete the project? How do I know? ||
 * ** Personal project question/statement **
 * ** Personal project goal **
 * ** Personal project goal **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Which **specifications** do I need to develop?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Which **specifications** do I need to develop?
 * Stage 2: Backward planning: from the assessment to the learning activities through inquiry **
 * ** Sources/Information **
 * ** Sources/Information **
 * ** Approaches to learning **
 * ** Approaches to learning **
 * ** Working strategies and Learning experiences **
 * ** Working strategies and Learning experiences **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">What have I found valuable in the information I’ve selected? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Has my knowledge or have my skills been challenged in any way? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">What questions have arisen during the project/this stage of the project? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">Which attributes of the learner profile have been encouraged through this project? What opportunities are there for self-initiated action? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How successful has the collaboration with my supervisor or other students been? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How can I make sure that I achieve all levels of the criteria descriptors? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How can I demonstrate my learning? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How did my product/outcome demonstrate the goal identified for the personal project? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">How did I decide on the data to collect? Was it useful? ||
 * Ongoing reflections and evaluation **
 * ** Process journal questions: **
 * Possible connections **
 * Assessment **
 * Data collection **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">Thinking, Planning, Creating and Reflecting… **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Your Process Journal <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What should I keep in my Journal?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Your journal is a complete record of EVERYTHING you do for your Personal Project, from START to FINISH. You should use your journal to store:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Notes and ideas on your project area of interaction
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Concepts for your project
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Drawings, pictures, clippings, photographs
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Information gathered from your investigations
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Copies of interviews and discussions with people
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Plans for your project
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Timeline(s)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Above all else you should use your journal to make regular and detailed REFLECTIONS on your ideas, progress and challenges. Record your responses to other people’s feedback, your good experiences and your disappointments. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **__It must be available to be read by your supervisor.__**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Your journal will be the most important document in your Personal Project experience because from it you will be able draw all the kind of information you will need to write your statement.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What should my journal look like?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You choose your journal format. Choose a format that allows you to be organised and chaotic, tidy and messy, because you will be putting scraps as well as good documents into it. You therefore can choose from a number of formats:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A scrapbook
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A booklet
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Electronic booklet (IE. ON THE COMPUTER)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A blog

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Choose the format that is most effective for you and your learning style and make it great!

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">Some Reflection Questions for Producing the Project Report ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Use these to guide you in this part of your Report Writing: **


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Goal __**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">These are questions you might use to help you think about your project when producing your report. You don’t have to answer each question as a checklist but they are to give you an idea of the type of information to include. You need to be aware of the overall word or time limit for the project. Some sections of your report may be longer than others; this is usual.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What area of interaction was the context for your project? Why did you generally choose that area of interaction? What specific features of the area of interaction did you intend to focus upon in your project and why?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What personal interest topic did you select? Why did this topic interest you? How much prior experience or understanding of this topic did you have? How does this interest or topic directly relate to your chosen area of interaction?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What inquiry question did you design from the area of interaction and topic? What process did you use to decide on your inquiry question? Why is your question one that requires more than a simple answer? How can someone recognise the area of interaction in the question? How do they recognise the topic in the question?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What goal did you set for your project? What specifications did you put in place to help you successfully complete your investigation and your project overall?


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Selection of Sources __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What resources did you investigate for your project? Why did you choose them? Were some resources better than others? Did you have any difficulties finding or using resources?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What printed resources did you use? Why did you use them? Where did you find them? How easy were they to obtain? What was valuable about them?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What electronic resources did you use? Why did you use them? How did you access them? How easy were they to access? What was valuable about them?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What human resources did you use? Why did you use them? How easy were they to meet or talk to? What was valuable about them?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How did you make your choices about what information to use and what to discard? How did you evaluate your sources?


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Application of Information __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What exactly did you do to complete your project? What decisions did you make based on the information you discovered? How did you solve problems? How did the information affect your choices?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Were there any specific techniques you developed as a result of your investigation?


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Achievement of the goal __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Did you adjust or alter your original goal as the project developed? If you made changes, why did you make the changes? Do you feel that you successfully achieved your goal?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Did you have to alter your specifications much during the process? Explain how effective your specifications turned out to be overall and evaluate your product.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What level of achievement would you award your product or outcome based on your specifications? Does your supervisor agree with this?


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reflection on Learning __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What exactly did you learn from your investigation? What was your response to your inquiry question? How did you reach your conclusion or hypothesis or point of view or expression of ideas? What aspects of your investigation really helped you to reach a better understanding of your topic?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What new understanding do you have the area of interaction you chose to use as the context for your project? How did the area of interaction context give you a different or better understanding of your topic?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How well did you do the project, according to your self-assessment? What did you feel you did well? What would you improve next time you do a similar project?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What specific skills did you need to develop/apply to investigate and complete your project? What new skills did you learn, or what existing skills did you improve?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What format did you use for your Journal and why was it your preferred format?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What did you learn about yourself as a person through undertaking the project process? Which of the Learner Profile qualities did you find yourself exhibiting at different times and why? Have you improved in any of these qualities?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What action should be taken by yourself and others as a result of what you discovered through your investigation? Why should that action occur? How might that action be implemented?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Final comment about your experience with the project?


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Can anyone help me to edit my Project Report? __**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The project report should be as error-free as possible so it is essential that you seek other people to edit your drafts. In publishing, the editing process is essential so it is essential you apply it in your Personal Project written statement. You can approach family, friends and teachers for assistance with grammar, punctuation and spelling matters. However, while they can help you with editing, they can’t WRITE the written statement for you. It must ultimately be your own work.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The same principle or idea applies if you are reporting your project in another format. If you are planning an oral presentation it is important to practise in front of an audience, whether that is your supervisor, friends or family. You can get feedback on drafts of your presentation before you make the final presentation.


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And Finally __****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">… **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Remember you are not doing this in your own. Your supervisor and others will help you on your way and by choosing something YOU want to explore, with planning and effort, you will complete the project and by the end of it be more knowledgeable and skilled in your chosen area.

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