Community Project
MYP 4
STAGE 1
Activity Sheet
SKILLS-
Research skills- collect and analyze data to identify solutions and make
informed decisions
Thinking skills- use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate new
ideas and inquiries
Communication skill- Give and receive meaningful feedback
Social skill- Build consensus and resolve conflict
Self-management skill- practice observing carefully in order to recognize
opportunities
ACTIVITY: What interests me?
What interests me?
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What am I passionate about?
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What communities am I interested in learning about?
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What communities am I interested in serving?
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What could I commit to over a long time period that will keep me
engaged and interested?
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Activity
A good way to start when considering the needs of the community
that you have chosen is through the use of a SWOT chart that
focused on the community overall.
1) SWOT Chart
Strengths Weaknesses
What are the strengths of this What are the weaknesses in this
community? community?
Opportunities Threats
What opportunities are available for What external or internal obstacles
you to serve this community? will you face in serving this
community?
Now that you have started to think about the community, let’s
narrow our thinking of this community into deciding on one need to
address within this community. To help you think deeply about the
chosen need within this community, a good place to start is using a
SOAR chart.
A SOAR chart is similar to the SWOT chart; however, it becomes
much more focused on setting a clear goal.
2) SOAR chart
Strengths Opportunities
What is already underway to meet the What opportunities are there for you
need you have chosen? What is to meet this need? Is anything not
already working well to meet this need working well to meet the need within
within this community? the community?
Aspirations Result
What would you like to achieve What results will you look for to know
through meeting this need? your service has been successful?
When choosing a type of service for your community project, it is a good idea
to consider your resources. Make sure you have the resources to meet the
identified need in this community to the best of your ability.
In order for the community’s aspirations to be met and the results of your
service as action to be evident, consider how you might place into an
achievable, rewarding and highly challenging goal. The community project is
an important project that requires lots of deep thinking, collaboration and
self-motivation. You need to make sure that your goal is highly challenging
and that it will extend you and help you grow as a caring and self-managed
learner.
3) Establish the goal
Activity: Extended Scaffold
Challenging goal Highly challenging Combined and
Skill required for challenging
goal
goal transferred
Add to this skill by Draw the skills together
thinking of how it may be and consider how they
extended through can be transferred to a
extending the required highly challenging goal
skill
4) Defining a context
Fairness and Identities and
Scientific and
development relationships
technical
innovation
YOUR HIGHLY CHALLENGING GOAL
Globalization Orientation in Personal and
and space and cultural
sustainability time expression
Activity: Circle of Viewpoints
Draw up the following scaffold in your process journal and consider your
community project goal from the perspective of a person or group of people
impacted by your choice.
You may find that you need to conduct more than one circle of viewpoint in
order to gather a more thorough picture of the possible points of views on
your community project goal. You may find that you need to adjust your
community project goal as a result of this activity. This is absolutely okay as
the community project cycle is interactive, and each part impacts the other
and requires reflection and adjustment. Just like a community.
For Highly challenging goal reflection- skills
In order to ensure that your community project goal is indeed a highly
challenging goal, consider the questions below. The questions guide your
thinking to consider how your community project goal will provide you with
an opportunity to demonstrate each of the approaches to learning skills.
How does your community project goal provide you with an opportunity
to ......
For Highly challenging goal reflection- IB learner
In order to ensure that your community project goal is indeed a highly
challenging goal, consider the questions below. The questions guide your
thinking to consider how your community project goal will provide you with
an opportunity to continue to strive to embody the characteristics of the IB
learner profile attributes.
How does your community project goal provide you with an opportunity
to ......
Identify prior learning and subject specific knowledge
A) Identify prior learning-
B) Explain how this prior learning will help you achieve your community
project goal-
C) What additional learning do you need to acquire in order to achieve
your community project goal-
D) MYP subject- specific skills and knowledge-
E) How will these skills and knowledge help you achieve your community
project goal-
Role of Knowledge and research skills
KNOWLEDGE:-
a) What knowledge do I already have of how to achieve my community
project goal?
b) What knowledge do I need to gain in order to achieve my community
project goal?
c) How can I find this information? Where can I find this information? Who
can support me in the search for new knowledge?
SKILLS:-
a) What skills do I already have of how to achieve my community project
goal?
b) What skills do I need to gain in order to achieve my community project
goal?
c) How can I find this information on how to develop these skills? Where
can I find support and coaching? Who is an expert who can teach me
the skills I need to acquire?
ACTIVITY ON Knowledge and skills research questions
Now please complete your proposal form
