Objective Strands
- Define a goal and global context based on personal interests
- Identify prior learning and subject-specific knowledge
- Demonstrate research skills
What will your product or outcome be?
STEP 1: Consider what you enjoy doing. It might be researching your family history, photography, playing lacrosse, the performing arts, the plight of polar bears, playing video games, caring for the environment, addressing community or global issues, cooking, hiking, fishing, fashion, reading, writing, inventing, conducting science experiments, serving your community, or any other topic that YOU find personally interesting.
STEP 2: Once you decide on a topic, you need to determine a tangible product or measurable outcome that might result from your investigation of this topic. You want a product/outcome that is challenging, or highly challenging, but not impossible to accomplish. Be a realistic risk-taker!
Here are some examples of products/outcomes:
STEP 3: Complete the personal project proposal form .
You need to record the following:
TOPIC: Identify your topic of interest and explain why you chose this topic.
GOAL: Define what you want to accomplish. State your goal, including the product or outcome.
GLOBAL CONTEXT: Choose a global context relevant to your topic and goal. Look HERE for more help on Global Contexts.
RESOURCES: Consider the resources (time, people, money, spaces, equipment, materials, books, internet etc) that you will need for the successful completion of your project.
STEP 2: Once you decide on a topic, you need to determine a tangible product or measurable outcome that might result from your investigation of this topic. You want a product/outcome that is challenging, or highly challenging, but not impossible to accomplish. Be a realistic risk-taker!
Here are some examples of products/outcomes:
- an electric guitar built from scratch, including a live performance
- investigation into benefits of aquaponic gardening; this investigation led to the creation of an aquaponic garden
- research on how to construct a fly-fishing rod; construction of the rod with supporting video documentation and a live demonstration for middle school students
- researching dog training techniques; working with a local shelter to provide obedience classes to a shelter dog with the goal of making the dog more adoptable
- creation of a video game after studying computer programming
STEP 3: Complete the personal project proposal form .
You need to record the following:
TOPIC: Identify your topic of interest and explain why you chose this topic.
GOAL: Define what you want to accomplish. State your goal, including the product or outcome.
GLOBAL CONTEXT: Choose a global context relevant to your topic and goal. Look HERE for more help on Global Contexts.
RESOURCES: Consider the resources (time, people, money, spaces, equipment, materials, books, internet etc) that you will need for the successful completion of your project.
DEMONSTRATE RESEARCH SKILLS
You need to be able to show that you have conducted research to contribute towards your project. You need to provide evidence of this research. This could be in the form of notes from your Process Journal. When you find a useful source, make an entry in your process journal with the bibliographical details of the source and what you learned from it. Using the SOURCE EVALUATION TEMPLATE (below) is a good way to show that you are thinking about your sources.
