What’s in a Personal Project?
The Process
Gathering and curating evidence is one of the most important requirement in your Personal Project experience. This is proof that you have been engaging in the whole process of the Personal Project from day 1 and reflect your academic integrity. You should use it to record your thoughts and all the work completed on a regular basis . It can contain the following:
Mind maps showing brainstorming ideas for your project
Bullet lists to show the development of your ideas
Charts to enable reflection and draw conclusions
Short paragraphs about your meeting with your supervisor and explaining your goal for the next meeting
Notes taken from your research-remember to record the source as soon as you start using the information
Timelines - a rough plan of how you will proceed with your project
Annotated illustrations to help brainstorming
Photos and pictures of your process
Students are not restricted to any single model for gathering evidence of their process; however, they are responsible for producing pieces of evidence that correspond to each strand of the three objectives.
You choose your journal format. Choose a format that allows you to be organized 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:
A web site
An iBook /a video
A booklet
A scrapbook
You are encouraged to use a range of tools, therefore generating evidence across a variety of platforms as you develop the project. Choose from what you feel will be the most effective for your style of learning. You will use it to write your final report. The more you write in your process journal, the easier writing your final report will be.
The Product/Outcome
The product or outcome is part of the overall goal, may be, but is not limited to:
Performances: play, dance, song, speech, artifact, drawings
Static visual displays: photographs, art, model, blueprint/architectural drawing, experiment
Published writing: creative prose, collection of animation, film, poetry, extended article, script, business plan, course of study
Interactive displays: website, video, audio-visual,
Events: fund-raising evening, service in action celebration, major event,
You must develop and define a set of realistic specifications in order to measure the final product or outcome. This must be documented in the process.
The Report
The MYP personal project report demonstrates a student’s engagement with his or her personal project by summarizing the experiences and skills recorded throughout the process.
The report should be presented in identifiable sections following the MYP personal project objectives—planning, applying skills, and reflecting. The report must include evidence for all the strands of all criteria.
Students may submit their report and evidence in any combination of documents and recordings that fits within the limits outlined in the table below. It shows the maximum length of students’ submissions.
To ensure that the documents and recordings are clear, there are specific clarifications for preparing the documents and recordings.
1. To ensure that the written part of the report is clearly legible, each page must have a minimum:
• 11-point font size
• 2 cm margins.
2. Evidence presented in images must be clearly visible at the size submitted.
3. Audio and video must be recorded and submitted in real time.
4. Visual aids may be used to support spoken reports. However, evidence and examples presented in the visual aids should be submitted as documents. Visual aids presented only in video format will not be considered for assessment.
5. The bibliography is uploaded separately and is not included in the page limit.
6. Please do not include a title page; if included, it will count towards the page limit.