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Students undertake a CAS project of at least one month’s duration that challenges students to show initiative, demonstrate perseverance, and develop skills such as collaboration, problem-solving, and decision-making. The CAS project can address any single strand of CAS, or combine two or all three strands. Students may work individually, with partners, or in groups.
All CAS projects should use the CAS stages as a framework for implementation to ensure that all requirements are met.
The five CAS stages are as follows.
1. Investigation: Students investigate what they want to do and determine the purpose for their CAS experience.
2. Preparation: Students clarify roles and responsibilities, develop a plan of actions to be taken.
3. Action: Students implement their idea or plan. This often requires decision-making and problem solving.
4. Reflection: Students describe what happened, express feelings, generate ideas, and raise questions.
5. Demonstration: Students make explicit what and how they learned and what they have accomplished.
Following examples are provided to help generate further ideas without limiting the scope and direction of a CAS project.
Creativity: A student group plans, designs and creates a mural.
Activity: Students organize and participate in a sports team including training sessions and matches against other teams.
Service: Students set up and conduct tutoring for people in need.
Creativity and activity: Students choreograph a routine for their marching band.
Service and activity: Students plan and participate in the planting and maintenance of a garden with members of the local community.
Service and creativity: Students identify that children at a local school need backpacks and subsequently design and make the backpacks out of recycled materials.
Creativity, activity, and service: Students rehearse and perform a dance production for a community retirement home.
The primary purpose of the CAS project is to ensure participation in sustained collaboration. Through this level of engagement students may discover the benefits of teamwork and of achievements realized through an exchange of ideas and abilities. As expected throughout CAS, students reflect on their CAS project experience. Due to the collaborative nature of the CAS project, having occasions to reflect with others can prove most informative and assist students in gaining insights into the process of their endeavour as well as personal growth.
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