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Design Resources Personal Project
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An Overview of the MYP Personal Project
The report is the main component of the personal project that is assessed by your supervisors and the IB. It is broken down
into 3 parts: [Link]
Planning
Planning, [Link]
Applying skills
skills, [Link].
Reflecting.
INQUIRE
REFLECT
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INQUIRE
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REFLECT Planning
Reflecting
Aims ACT
of the Applying
Personal skills
Project
Top of Page
A. Planning
B. Applying Skills
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Example Reports/Products
Bibliography/Referencing
Format for your report
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A: Planning
In this section of the report you must demonstrate the following:
i. state a learning goal for the project and explain how a personal interest led to that goal
ii. state an intended product and develop appropriate success criteria for the product
iii. present a clear, detailed plan for achieving the product and its associated success criteria.
In this section you must do the following 4:
1. 2. 3. 4.
Set a learning goal State a product Develop a success Make an action
based on a goal criteria for your plan to achieve the
personal interest product product
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1-2. Setting a Learning and Product goal.
Explainer video - How to set a SMART Goal:
Global Contexts - Linking to your goal (OPTIONAL)
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Global Contexts - Linking to your goal (OPTIONAL)
You can use a Global Context to guide your exploration and learning goal. Look through the Global Contexts below and
choose the one which fits your exploration the most. Feel free to mention the global context in your report and say how your
project will explore this global context or use it to drive your inquiry.
Identities Orientation in Personal and
& Space and Time Cultural Expression
Relationships
What is the meaning of What is the nature and
Who am I? ‘where’ and ‘when’? purpose of creative
Who we are? expression?
Scientific and Globalization and Fairness and
technical innovation Sustainability Development
How do we understand the What are the consequences
How is everything
worlds in which we live? of our common humanity?
connected?
Prior Knowledge
Identify what you already know about the goal for your project, the sources of your knowledge and how this will help you
achieve your personal project goal.
You can also draw from your MYP subjects that will help you achieve your personal project goal. You can Brainstorm or use
the KWHL chart below, to help access prior information on a topic or theme or focus on a topic. You can identify primary and
secondary resources, leading to the research.
KWHL Chart
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KWHL Chart
3. Writing a Success Criteria
4. Writing an Action plan
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B. Applying Skills
In this section of the report you must demonstrate the following:
i. explain how the ATL skills were applied to help achieve your learning goal.
ii. explain how the ATL skills were applied to help achieve your product.
In this section you must do the following 3:
1. 2. 3.
Select and apply Select and apply Gather evidence
ATL skills to work ATL skills to work showing how you
towards your towards your have used the ATL
learning goal. product goal. skills in your
project
1&2. Selecting ATL skills.
Approaches to learning (ATL) are a framework of skills which help you develop as an independent learner. There are 5 skill
categories (yellow innner circle).
These break down further into clusters (outer circle of diagram)
diagram). For each cluster there are specific skills that you may use.
There are over 130 of these skills. You are not expected to demonstrate all of these skills within each cluster but only select
the relevant ones.
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Navigate through the tabs below to see the ATL skills for each category:
Communication Self-Management Social Research Thinking
An example table showing the ATL
skill and possible evidence that can
be used to demonstrate it.
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3. Gathering evidence to move the project forward
You MUST research in order to successfully complete this project. Why research? Albert Einstein himself stated, “If we knew
what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” (Natural Capitalism, 272)
What and where?
Use any of the following platforms to conduct research:
Books
Site visits (museums etc.)
Magazine articles
Television shows
Newspaper articles
Video recordings
Maps or atlases
Electronic databases
Expert people
Web sites
Collecting Information
As you research, record the important details regarding that source right away. Use [Link] (citation generator) and create
a project in it.
You should keep a place (eg: process journal, word doc, ppt slides, notebook etc) where you record and log your research for
your whole project. You can take screenshots or photographs from this and include them into your criteria B as evidence of
ATL skills.
Remember
Remember! People are sources, too! Keep track of all your sources using the MLA9 style.
3. Demonstrating Your Research Skills
In order to effectively achieve your personal project goal, you will need to research and evaluate the sources you have
researched so that you can then transfer this research to your actual project.
You should select relevant and reliable information from a variety of sources to develop the personal project. The number and
types of resources will vary depending upon the nature of the project:
You need to ensure that you have documented your sources in your project in [Link]. Available sources may include your
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You need to ensure that you have documented your sources in your project in [Link]. Available sources may include your
prior knowledge and primary and secondary sources such as: subject area content, significant people, survey data, published
media, internet resources (which provide a variety of sources), images.
You will have selected sources during the initial stage of your project but research will continue during the process of
completing the project. Make sure that you build your bibliography as you research. Be ready to provide in-text citations for
all sources.
3. Guidance for Collecting ATL Evidence
Pick the right amount of ATL strands
Aim for 3–4 ATL strands total, spread across 2–3 ATL categories (e.g., Self-Management, Research, Communication, Thinking).
Avoid two extremes:
Too many → shallow, checklist behavior.
Too few → weak picture of growth.
Choose strands that directly drive your goal, product, and research needs (not just what’s easy to evidence).
Tips to keep your evidence
Maintain a process journal; digital or physical, to record your progress throughout the project. This will allow you to generate clear evidence for
each strand within the three project objectives.
Evidence should be:
Relevant Contextualized Attributable Timestamped
Triangulated Ethical
3x3 permissioned
Go in depth when you analyze evidence
A very easy and beneficial structure to use when analysing your evidence is PEEL
PEEL. You may have used this in English or Humanities to analyse
evidences. USe the same strcture for your own evidence
POINT EVIDENCE EXPLAIN LINK
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Checklist (use before you submit)
Use this checklist and tick off what you have done before you submit to ensure you have all steps done for this section:
1. Evidence is clearly linked to a named ATL strand.
2. I explain how the evidence demonstrates the skill (not just “I did it”).
3. I state the impact on my project (time, quality, usability, outcomes).
4. I note a next step or improvement.
5. I connect it to the relevant PP criterion.
6. Dates, permissions, and citations are in place.
c. reflecting
In this section of the report you must demonstrate the following:
i. explain the impact of the project on yourselves or your learning
learning.
ii. evaluate your product based on the success criteria
criteria.
In this section you must do the following 3:
1. 2. 3.
Explain how you Evaluate the Support your
product based on comments with
have changed due specific evidence
to your learning the success
goal or product criteria. or detailed
examples
1. Showing change throughout the process
When writing your reflection these are some of the questions you can consider:
What skills How has my How has my
Whatsection
In this have I for theWhat havelevel
highest I you should What skills What am I
have I show the development of change through constant point ofreflection.
view You could
project focus
learned about learned about have I most proud prepared me
onthe
thesubject?
change, improvement
myself?
or development you
aquired? have made in your
improved?
ATL skills. You
of?
could represent this
changed? as a table like this:
for the future?
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2. Evaluating the product against the Success Criteria
For this section of your personal project, you need to refer back to your specifications and criteria for success rubrics/criteria that you created
and have been seeking to achieve as you took action to create your product/outcome.
Evaluate your product/outcome against the specifications you have set. Assess your work according to the achievement descriptions you
specified in your rubric.
You now need to provide a justification of why you have given yourself this level against your specification. This needs to be documented in your
report. If you have not achieved the top achievement levels that you set yourself, you need to justify why and explain how you could have
improved your product/outcome so you could have achieved the top achievement level. A thoughtful evaluation indicating how your project
could have been taken to a higher level provides a very positive outcome.
examples
Examples of Previous PP Reports & Products
Level 7
Physics Language Design Sustainability Psychology Psychology
Learning Goal: Learning Goal: Learning Goal: Learning Goal: Learning Goal:
Theoretical physics Learning a language Understanding needs of Causes of mental Placebo effect - the
behind the idea of time- (Japanese) to an upper- toilets in Haiti and instability and possible impact of colours on
travel. intermediate level exploring mechanisms therapy to prevent it. mental health
for emergency toilets
Product Goal: Product Goal: Product Goal: Product Goal:
Explainer Video Lang Book for primary Product Goal: A book on mental health Instagram business page
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Explainer Video Lang Book for primary Product Goal: A book on mental health Instagram business page
school A model of a reusable sellling merchandise
portable toilet.
Report Product Report Product Report Product Report Product Report Product
Design Language Sports & Science Science &
Psychology
Learning Goal: Learning Goal: Learning Goal:
Learning animation Learn about Dyslexia and Understanding the Learning Goal:
how it affects individuals Science behind The Neuroscience of
Product Goal: swimming and Early Childhood
Animation Video Product Goal: hydrodynamics. development
A book on Dyslexia
Product Goal: Product Goal:
A video on swimming Educational Video
Report Product Report Product
Report Report
Level 6
Art Psychology Sports & Psychology Travel & Culture Technology &
Aviation
Learning Goal: Learning Goal: Learning Goal: Learning Goal:
Learn how art has Learn how do negative What mental How to plan a mindful Learning Goal:
developed over the years thoughts impact on our preparations athletes go trip in Thailand Exploring the electro-
lives through to prepare aircraft industry
Product Goal: themselves physically Product Goal:
Art Painting Canvases Product Goal: Designing an App Product Goal:
Book on mental health Product Goal: Educational Youtube
Art piece on disabled video on electric aircrafts
and abled athletes
Report Product Report Product Report Product
Report Product Report Product
Science Health & Diet Art Psychology Design Sustainability
Learning Goal: Learning Goal: Learning Goal: Learning Goal: Learning Goal:
How scientific material Learning to cook through Learn how to tell a story Causes of mental Importance of
be communicated creating a cookbook of my progress through instability and possible Sustainable Architecture
through fiction novels art. therapy to prevent it.
Product Goal: Product Goal:
Product Goal: A Cookbook Product Goal: Product Goal: Architectural Sustainable
Science Books for Art paintings A book on mental health Model
children
Report Product Report Product Report Product Report Product Report Product
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bibliography
How to Reference and write a Bibliography
For the PP Report, the IB have requested that you must use the following referencing method:
MLA 8 (Modern Language Association 8th Edition)
There is a very easy way of referencing both "in-text" and creating a "bibliography" using [Link]. The video
tutorials below show how easily you can reference your research accurately and hassle-free:
TUTORIAL: How to use MyBib Chrome Extension to reference
anything easily for your report.
TUTORIAL: How to create a Bibliography on MyBib.
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formatting
Format for your Report
Your report must be submitted in .pdf format. You also need to consider your learning
preferences and your strengths. It is so important that you communicate clearly and
concisely in order to reach the highest grade possible.
Your report Must:
1. Be organised into identifiable sections following those of the criteria: A.
Planning, B. Applying Skills, C. Reflecting
2. Ensure that it is no more than 15 pages long excluding the bibliography.
3. To ensure that the written part of the report is clearly legible, each page must
have a minimum: 11-point font size and 2 cm margins.
4. Evidence presented in images must be clearly visible at the size submitted.
5. Audio and video must be recorded and submitted in real time.
6. Visual aids presented only in video format will not be considered for assessment.
7. The bibliography is uploaded separately and is not included in the page limit.
8. Please do not include a title page
page; if included it will count towards the page limit.
You should have the following things Uploaded/Completed on
ManageBac
1. The Academic Honesty form (Containing student and supervisor signature)
2. Product images/videos (pdf, mov, mp4, mp3, wma, wmv) uploaded on Teams.
3. Bibliography uploaded in pdf on Teams
4. Report uploaded in pdf on Teams.
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Once you have completed your project you MUST complete the Checklist form below
and submit it so your PP coordinator knows you have completed it in the right format.
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COMPLETE THE CHECKLIST FORM
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